Inside the Machine: KGB Regulations
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
With the help of our academical friends in the Latvian KGB research center, we acquired a very interesting document: “Regulations of the USSR KGB “On the agency apparatus and trustworthy persons in the USSR State Security Committee”, from 1983. Yes, it’s authentic, and as, I couldn’t find a full, widely available English translation on the internet. So…I translated the whole thing. If anyone is interested in reading it themselves, I’ll be glad to share. I hope you’ll find this interesting, as this is a bit more dry episode – I wanted the text to speak for itself, explaining only the very necessary things. But…making jokes about this text felt a bit wrong. Enjoy!
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| 1:09.6 | Music Greetings, comrades. Today, I was thinking about doing a retrospect of the old episodes, about the new facts that we have gathered about the stuff said previously. |
| 1:15.9 | But, due to some lucky coincidences, our friends from the KGB Research Institute have provided us with a splendid, brilliant, I would even say, document that I will translate |
| 1:21.9 | fully here, as is. The document is marked as completely secret, and I'll give you some valuable insights. |
| 1:29.3 | I believe it will be great, as I have gotten my hands on. Regulations of the USSR KGB on the agency |
| 1:37.1 | apparatus and trustworthy persons in the USSR State Security Committee, printed on the 4th of July |
| 1:43.7 | 1983. Order number 0.0.140 in Moscow. |
| 1:50.0 | It's 21 pages long, so this will take the whole episode, but it's well worth it. |
| 1:54.6 | I will provide comments only when absolutely necessary, such as an explanation of the |
| 1:59.4 | specific intelligence terms used in this text, |
| 2:02.4 | and maybe some historical context, but for the absolute majority, I would like this document to speak for itself. |
| 2:09.3 | So here we go. |
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