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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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Spyware The loudest Russian espionage scandal in the United States looks the most unconvincing and most unnecessary FBI agents are trying to prove that they took the track of Russian spies In Russian-American relations there was a scandal. The FBI arrested 11 people on charges of spying for Russia. The secret service is confident that they are all conspiracy officers of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Meanwhile, Kommersant’s US Department of Justice yesterday, in fact, refuted the counterintelligence version, saying that they “have no reason to believe that any of the suspects received or transmitted secret information.” But Russian and American experts are confident that in this case, the departmental interests of the FBI prevailed over the state. The reaction to the scandal of political circles of both countries testifies: neither the Kremlin nor the White House want this scandal to turn into a big quarrel. The US Justice Ministry announced the detention of 11 people on charges of espionage in favor of the Russian Federation on Monday (in Moscow it was already after midnight). The FBI carried out their arrests in several American cities at once last Sunday - two days after the completion of the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the United States. In the documents submitted to the court the very next day, the names of the majority of the accused are enclosed in quotation marks, since, according to the FBI, they all used false passports, trying to "legalize on the instructions of the Foreign Intelligence Service in the United States." Anna Chapman, Vicki Pelaez and Juan Lazaro were arrested in New York. Richard and Cynthia Murphy - in the town of Montclair in the state of New Jersey. Michael Zottoli, Patricia Mills and Mikhail Semenko are in the Washington suburb of Arlington, where Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama have recently enjoyed burgers. Donald Howard Hisfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley were arrested in their Cambridge apartment near Boston. Finally, another accused, Christopher Metsos, was detained in Cyprus, but immediately released on bail pending a court decision. In addition to Anna Chapman, Mikhail Semenko and Christopher Metsos, in all other cases, charges were brought against married couples. They are suspected of "conspiring to act as agents of a foreign government." Everyone except Murphy’s spouse has been charged with “conspiracy to launder money,” which faces a sentence of up to 20 years. According to FBI documents handed over to the court, all the defendants were instructed to "be extremely Americanized" in order to gain access to documents from the US administration, as well as "establish contacts with planning and political decision-making centers." The suspects have been monitored since 2000, and during this time counterintelligence officers have collected several hundred volumes that make up the criminal case. According to US intelligence, Russian foreign intelligence was interested in a wide range of issues - from the US position on disarmament negotiations to Iran’s nuclear program and rumors of a change in the head of the CIA. "Try to find out the views of the American delegation and the goals that Obama sets for himself during the summit in July, and what arguments his team intends to use in order to persuade Russia to cooperate in the interests of the United States," one of the messages received agents on the eve of last year’s visit of the US president to Moscow. According to the FBI, all those arrested underwent an intensive training course, including teaching foreign languages, developing communication methods, methods of avoiding outdoor surveillance, using ciphers, invisible ink and hiding places. A group detained in a district of New York, according to counterintelligence, sometimes used the "Morse code." Everyone else preferred a more modern technique: secret codes were recorded in computer images and openly posted on public Internet sites or sent by e-mail. On the computers seized in the house of Donald Hisfield, FBI agents found reports on the expenses of exposed agents: "Received from the Center $ 64,500. Revenue $ 13,940. Costs: rent $ 8500, utilities $ 142, phone $ 160, car lease payments $ 2180, gasoline $ 820, education $ 3600, expenses in France $ 1000, medical services $ 139, $ 700 spent on lawyers, $ 1230 on food and gifts, $ 460 on email and computer supplies, $ 4900 on business, $ 1125 meeting trip (so in the original. - “Kommersant”) " As follows from the documents of the prosecution, the "Center" more than once reminded illegal immigrants about the reason for which they were sent abroad. “You were sent to the United States on a long business trip,” the encrypted message says. “Your education, bank accounts, a car, a house - all this exists for one purpose: to fulfill the main task. Find and establish contacts in political circles and report about it to the Center. " From the materials prepared by the FBI, one can judge when the accused attracted the attention of special services. The surveillance of Anna Chapman, for example, was established only six months ago. From January to June 2010, external observation recorded at least ten cases of information exchange between her and the person appearing in the investigation documents as "an employee of Russian government structures No. 1". The FBI believes that he is the third secretary of the Russian mission to the UN. True, who exactly kept in touch with agents is not specified, but meanwhile, a dozen people are the third secretaries in the Russian representation at the UN. Data was transmitted using a computer: in all cases, Chapman entered the cafe, turned on the laptop, and after a while a minibus with numbers of the Russian diplomatic mission passed by. According to the FBI, a special module was installed in the computers of all suspects, which allows you to quickly establish communication over the local network. Agent curators provided them with money in person. So, on June 6, 2009, surveillance cameras at the North White Planes railway station recorded a meeting between Murphy and a man named in the documents "an employee of Russian government structures No. 3". They met on the stairs, the agent opened his backpack for a second, and a passing one cleverly shoved a heavy plastic bag into it. A few months later, Murphy transferred part of the received money to Zottoli. As follows from the intercepted by the FBI radiogram, the parties had to exchange the following phrases: "Excuse me, but we did not meet in Bangkok last April?" “I don’t know about April, but I was in Thailand in May of that year.” At least two of the suspects, as follows from the materials of the case, were detained after the FBI agents, who introduced themselves as employees of the Russian Embassy, came into contact with them - the spies made contact and even agreed to leave the required information in a cache, the location of which was indicated by the FBI agents . Meanwhile, behind all the detective stories colorfully described by the FBI, the main thing remains unclear - did the suspects manage to inflict any serious damage on the US security. Unlike the vast majority of Russian spy scandals of the past 15 years (see the reference), in this case, the FBI documents mention only a few episodes that can be considered with a stretch worthy of attention. Among them were the transfer in the fall of 2009 of Cynthia Murphy of information on the situation in the world gold market, Lazaro’s contacts with an unnamed influential New York financier and the meeting of one of the suspects with a "scientist related to the development of bombs designed to destroy bunkers." However, on Monday, federal judges in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts refused to release the suspects on bail. Their fate will be determined by the court, which will begin in the Southern District of New York on July 1. However, the FBI version of the exposure of the spy network has actually been denied by the US Justice Department. His representative, Dean Boyd, told Kommersant that “the court did not charge with espionage because this term refers to an attempt to transfer classified materials to a third party or state, and we had no reason to believe that any of the suspects received or transmitted secret information. " Thus, the effect of the high-profile espionage scandal almost immediately turned out to be blurred by the nature of the charges against the detainees. This is also noted by experts pointing to the interdepartmental interests of US intelligence. “It’s obvious to me that operational considerations at the FBI got the better of thinking about the fate of the Russian-American reset,” Harvey Claire, professor at Emory University, author of Spies: The Rise and Rise of the KGB in America, told Kommersant. The head of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Dmitry Trenin, believes that several groups could provoke the scandal. Firstly, "those American politicians who believe that Barack Obama has come too close to the Russians and acts in their favor." And secondly, the special services themselves, which, after a series of major failures, which eventually led to the resignation of the head of the national intelligence service Dennis Blair last month, decided to demonstrate official zeal. "After the terrorist attack on Times Square, the FBI must prove its worth," Mr Trenin told Kommersant. He considered the accusations against the detainees not too convincing: “If there had been real crime or espionage, they would have been immediately voiced. But the FBI has been following this group for many years, and did not present evidence of espionage. What we heard is as if a person arrested on murder charges would end up being tried for parking in the wrong place. " It is noteworthy that both Russian and American officials are extremely restrained in commenting on the incident. "They didn’t explain what we were talking about. I hope they will explain. The moment when this was done was chosen with special grace," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was in Jerusalem yesterday. And in the late afternoon, Foreign Ministry spokesman Igor Lyakin-Frolov confirmed that the detainees were Russian citizens who at different times found themselves in the United States, and that they had not committed any actions against the interests of the United States. At the same time, Moscow was not immediately inclined to see the secret intrigues of the White House behind the scandal. "The degree of confidence in the relations that have been established between Obama and Medvedev is such that if the US president knew about the upcoming operation during the visit of his Russian counterpart, he would have informed him," a senior Kommersant source in the diplomatic circles of the Russian Federation assured. - And if he didn’t do it - that means he learned about the operation at the last moment. " Such a restrained reaction suggests that Moscow would like to hush up the scandal as soon as possible. This was confirmed by the interlocutor of Kommersant, who admitted that "all eloquent speakers were given an unspoken directive - not to comment on the incident." And, apparently, it is being faithfully executed. In any case, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko, presidential spokesman Natalya Timakova and even the head of the State Duma’s foreign affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev, flatly refused to comment on Kommersant’s spy scandal. The American side did likewise. Yesterday, at the request of journalists to speak on this subject, Barack Obama succinctly answered: "Thank you." It was not possible to get a more detailed answer from the US president. And only US Under Secretary of State Philip Gordon said: we are committed to continuing the development of relations with Russia and suggest that we consider espionage scandal in this context. Kirill Belyaninov, New York; Vladimir Soloviev [DLMURL] https://www.kommersant.ru/ [/ DLMURL]

 

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Who are the special services against? Vladimir Lukin, Commissioner for Human Rights, in 1992-1993, Russia's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the United States: - Everyone serves his own. These are ordinary things, when I was an ambassador, such stories also happened. There is no direct connection between Medvedev’s visit and this scandal. Here the domestic political struggle in the USA is not ruled out. In any case, this scandal will not affect relations between our countries. Relations spoil only when countries want to spoil relations and are looking for an excuse. Now the situation is different. Vitaly Margelov, in 1997-2003, Deputy Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation: - Against a reboot in our relations. It has just begun, and the secret services need to do something to spoil the effect. Someone really does not like Obama's course, here hawks and muddy the water. Russia needs to be very calm about this. Moreover, the Americans are weaving traits in this matter - some illegal immigrants, money laundering. What collection of information from the White House can we talk about? What is there to collect? It’s funny. The conflict must be resolved at the political level, without interfering with the special services. Mikhail Lyubimov, writer, former officer of PSU KGB: - Not against, but on himself. The American special services have not caught spies for a long time, but intelligence must be reminded of itself in order to receive financing. In addition, intelligence agencies often act against the will of the president. US intelligence agencies have always been closer to the Republicans, and Obama from another camp. Russia does not need to respond to this scandal. When the documents are presented, and this is unlikely to happen, since the Americans still haven’t slaughtered anything and only talk about money laundering, then you can react. Ariel Cohen, Leading Expert of the Heritage Foundation (Washington): - Against an illegal network of people whom counterintelligence considers agents. The arrests were most likely delayed until Medvedev left. The investigation was ongoing in 2004-2005, and it was thoroughly conducted. Judging by the published information, the collection of materials was strange. The alleged scouts were not in high positions and did not learn anything particularly valuable. And why did it take years to spend money on collecting information that could be taken from newspapers? It all looks like a bad parody of a 1970s Le Carré novel. This story will negatively affect Russian-American relations. Medvedev and Obama triumphed in rebooting by eating chips from the same plate. But Obama could not have known that a revelation was being prepared, and Medvedev knew that the spy network was working. Dmitry Rogozin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO: - This is a blow to the American president. A month ago, I was in the USA and I felt an extremely keen attitude of the establishment towards the president. The USA cannot solve its terrible problems - oil spill, crisis, scandals on the stock exchange. Obama has real breakthroughs in foreign policy, apparently, not everyone likes it. Therefore, the scandal is a consequence of the internal struggle. No wonder it arose when the dust from the Russian side N 1 on the runway had not settled yet. Viktor Komplektov, in 1991-1992, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the United States: - One thing is clear - there are people in America who want to harm us. This is an unpleasant story, because the incident was greatly inflated, the Americans had the opportunity to hush everything up, but they went on aggravation. I do not presume to judge whether this will affect relations between our countries, while there are too many ambiguities. [DLMURL] https://www.kommersant.ru/ [/ DLMURL]

 

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Russian FBI disclosures: 1994-2009 The first Russian spy exposed in the United States after the collapse of the USSR was CIA officer Aldrich Ames, who was arrested on February 21, 1994. He received a life sentence, his wife - 5 years. According to media reports, since 1985, he uncovered 25 CIA agents for $ 4.6 million. In February 1996, an employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) Robert Lipka was arrested. He admitted to collaborating with the USSR in the 1960s and was sentenced to 18 years. In April 1996, Navy school instructor Kurt Lessentien was caught trying to establish contacts with the Russian Embassy. Sentenced to 27 years. In November 1996, CIA officer Harold Nicholson was detained. For the disclosure of the SVR agent network, he received 23 years. In December 1996, FBI officer Earl Edwin Pitts was exposed, who reported on American plans for Soviet intelligence in 1982-1992. Sentenced to 27 years. In October 1997, a group of agents was discovered, which included the Pentagon legal adviser Teresa Squillacout (sentenced to 21 years old), her husband, union activist Kurt Strand (17.5 years old) and private detective James Clark (12 years old). In October 1998, David Boone, a former NSA intelligence analyst, was lured out of Germany and arrested. At one time, he received $ 60 thousand from Moscow, and 24 years from American justice. In November 1999, Navy foreman Daniel King, who was seconded to the NSA, was detained. Suspicions in the transfer of SVR data on wiretapping of Russian submarine communication cables have not been proven. In June 2000, retired military intelligence colonel George Trofimoff was arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment. Since 1969, he has given Moscow 50,000 pages of classified information. He became the most senior US military convicted of espionage. On February 20, 2001, FBI officer Robert Philip Hanssen was detained. He worked for Moscow for 15 years, betraying a number of agents. Got a life sentence. Soon, the United States expelled 49 Russians from the country, Moscow responded with symmetrical measures. In January 2009, Nathaniel Nicholson, the son of Harold Nicholson serving time for espionage, was arrested. According to investigators, he gave SVR information about the details of exposing his father and received $ 35,000 for him as a kind of pension. [DLMURL] https://www.kommersant.ru/ [/ DLMURL]

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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The West accused Russia of unleashing a cyber war Russia has a reputation as the number two threat to the Network. This reputation is maintained in itself: the “Russian trace” is found even in those cybercrimes where it does not exist. Less attention is being paid to hackers and hackers - loners, more and more - to the cyber war being waged (according to Western media) by Russia. The Russian hacker is a stereotypical character, a defendant in Western editorials and films. At the disposal of the Ruformer was a Powerscourt study that examined how Russia is portrayed in foreign media in connection with various cyber conflicts and cybercrimes. Powerscourt conditionally divided publications about cyber conflicts involving Russia and Russians into two directions. The first - geopolitical - is associated with attacks on various sites made "in the interests of Russia" - for example, with DDOS attacks on Georgian or Estonian sites. The second is connected with the “successes” of individual hackers - for example, Vasily Gorshkov and Alexei Ivanov (2000). The latest examples of such “successes” include Citibank hacking and theft of 1.5 million Facebook accounts. Dynamics of publications on geopolitical cyber crimes and main geopolitical topics (illustration from the study) As you can see, the main driver of the opinion of the Western public about Russia as a breeding ground for cyber crime is verbal confrontation with the West and the countries of the former USSR, which has become part of the rhetoric of the former president. Against the backdrop of the political struggle, many Western media, including the leading ones, published articles in which individual representatives of Russia were accused of attacks on the websites of Georgia, Estonia, and Ukraine. This was partly facilitated by the fact that members of some socio-political organizations did not deny their involvement in this cyber war. By the end of the first decade of the century, “cyber warfare” on the part of Russia overshadowed the importance of the threat on the part of Russian hackers. Changes in the content of publications on Russia The percentage of publications on cybercrime on the part of Russia of the total number of articles that spoke about computer crimes and threats has changed over the past decade, but it has not been possible to identify any unidirectional trends in these changes. We can note fluctuations in this share from year to year. Change in the share of publications about Russian hackers Change in the absolute number of publications about Russian hackers (illustration from the study) Since the trend cannot be distinguished from the change in the share, and the absolute number of publications grew, it can be argued that this increase is associated either with an increase in the total number of cybercrimes maintaining a relative level of cybercrime in Russia, or with an increase in media interest in this topic. Russia lost the title of chief cyber enemy of the West in 2007, losing the palm to China. China is the main source of threats The increase in the number of references to Russia in materials about cybercrime is associated with several phenomena. First, the West drew attention to Russian spammers, who until recently were invisible in the scale of general spam on the Web. One of the most famous Russian spammers is Glavmed, a partner pharmaceutical company. Secondly, US President Barack Obama drew attention to cybersecurity - this could cause a sharp increase in the number of publications, for which there was no real change in the situation. Thirdly, its reputation begins to play against Russia. Long dividing the first and second place according to the attention of Western media with Chinese colleagues, domestic hackers earned a certain reputation. Now, even when there is no direct evidence of Russian participation, it is still suspected. For example, the “climategate” (the scandal with the opening of the correspondence of “scientists” involved in global warming) has no evidence of any connection with Russia or China. However, the media immediately found traces of both states: the Huffington Post chose to blame China, Times Online - Russia. In general, we can say that over the past decade, Russia's reputation in terms of cybercrime has not deteriorated. However, unfortunately, it stabilized - and stabilized in not too good condition. However, “enemy number 1” was obviously China. The position of “enemy number 2,” however, is not much better.

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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Americans found a Russian spy in the Microsoft office

Americans found Russian spy in Microsoft office

On Tuesday, July 13, American authorities decided to deport a Russian citizen, 23-year-old Alexei Karetnikov. The reason for the Ministry of National Security called a violation of immigration law. Karetnikov agreed to leave the country voluntarily under the threat of prosecution.

According to representatives of federal authorities, Karetnikov has lived near Seattle since he arrived in the United States in October 2009. He was found at the address in Redmond, a city known primarily for the headquarters of one of the leading software manufacturers, Microsoft Corporation. As it turned out, Karetnikov worked at Microsoft at the starting position of a software tester for less than a year. The head office of the company did not provide additional information and did not report what was its responsibility.

The current employer of Karetnikov, in addition to Microsoft, is the Romanian IT company Neobit, in which he holds the position of senior developer. At Microsoft, Karetnikov works in the SDET position. In 2004, he graduated from Physics and Mathematics School No. 30, and in 2009, from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University.

The Russian representative office of Microsoft confirmed that Karetnikov worked at the company in Redmond as a software tester at the starting position for 9 months. “Karetnikov has nothing to do with Microsoft in Russia. He has never been an employee of the Russian office of Microsoft. And we do not search for the company's European or American offices,” added a Microsoft representative in Russia.

Despite the fact that the official reason for the deportation was a violation of immigration law, the Wall Street Journal had previously published an article stating that the FBI was investigating the circumstances of a certain 23-year-old Russian citizen in the United States who was not named. His visa was canceled on June 26.

It is assumed that Karetnikov is the twelfth Russian spy in addition to the ten who have already been detained in the United States, and one who worked in Cyprus. No charges were brought against espionage against the Russian citizen, since the investigation does not have evidence of his involvement in illegal activities.

Recall spy scandal erupted in late June, when ten people were detained in the United States on suspicion. Initially, the word "espionage" did not appear in the investigation documents, but the media and official authorities immediately dubbed the scandal spyware, and detainees - spies. Russia and the United States seemed to put an end to the “espionage” scandal last Friday, exchanging four Russians convicted of espionage and pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev for ten Russian citizens.
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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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KGB agent?

US FBI suspected Bobby Fisher and his mother of working for Soviet intelligence

Recently declassified new documents from the so-called "Fisher dossier." They confirm the sensational information that was first published by the American newspaper Philadelphia Incuirer. From the numerous reports of the agents it follows: it was during a visit to the USSR in 1958 that Fisher, as the FBI believed, could be recruited by the KGB. This, as stated in the archival document: "was promoted by his mother Regina Fisher, who worked for the Lubyanka for many years."
Retired colonel Semen Moiseevich Lazarev had carefully concealed his acquaintance with the mother of the famous chess genius. And at all the AN’s columnist’s requests to share memories of the details of Regina’s recruitment, he only joked:
- How many years to share: fifteen or a quarter?
But, after he learned about the declassification of 750 pages from the FBI archive dedicated to the Fisher family, he decided to tell something.
Hunter of Secrets
According to the old colonel (Semyon Moiseevich well after eighty), Regina Vender was a unique girl. She knew 8 languages. For intelligence - a real treasure! Her son Bobby inherited outstanding linguistic abilities from his mother and learned 5 languages.
“Why was Robert Fisher so smart?” - Semyon Moiseevich liked to ask more, but this time he himself answered: - Parent genes.
Indeed, according to declassified data from the FBI, Bobby's father was not Hans-Gerhard Fischer, a German biophysicist whom Regina married in Moscow in 1933 (they divorced in 1945), and his friend, a mathematics teacher from Hungary, Paul Nemeni. By the way, the future Nobel laureate and one of the participants in the creation of the atomic bomb. Is it on the instructions of the Soviet intelligence Regina that she started a romance with a secret mathematician from the Manhattan project?
Colonel Lazarev refused to answer this question, referring to a subscription on non-disclosure of state secrets. And about the FBI said:
- No one held a candle. But Jews are right when they determine their nationality by mother. Father is always doubtful.
Apparently, Regina was not a regular Soviet intelligence officer. She graduated in the USSR not from an intelligence school, but from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute. Refuting the FBI, Colonel Lazarev claims that she was not a member of the intelligence staff. At least I didn’t get any money from Lubyanka. Perhaps the USSR helped out of ideological considerations. So in those days, many did.
Regina lived very poorly. The FBI archive has a letter dated 1952 (Bobby was then 9 years old) in which she complains to her friend that she does not have money to repair her son’s shoes.
Mom worked tirelessly, entrusting the upbringing of the son of her eldest daughter Joan. In order to somehow occupy her brother, she gave him cardboard chess. This became Robert's passion.
According to the official version, it was because of chess that the proud teenager quarreled with his mother, and she left her son. “I am grateful to my mother for leaving me,” said Bobby, “she always kept me in black gloves, but I don’t like that.”
However, a new version of this gap has now appeared. FBI agents report that the mother and son continue to maintain a rather warm relationship. And their public quarrel and breakup were imaginary, carried out on the instructions of Soviet intelligence. On Lubyanka, they say, they knew that after emigrating to the United States, Regina Fisher was under the hood of the American counterintelligence. The Chekists allegedly wanted to divert suspicion from Robert.
From the last interview
Fisher was extremely reluctant to give interviews to reporters. But shortly before his death, he answered by telephone to questions from a journalist in a Russian newspaper. And the last time he appeared on the air on the Icelandic station on January 27, 2002.
Someone from the audience of the radio station asked the great grandmaster a question: who is the greatest among the greats - he or Garry Kasparov. “How can you compare me with this scammer? I do not want to call him. Neither by name, nor just Kasparov is just a criminal! I know that now he is trying to engage in politics, he is going against President Putin. For me, Kasparov’s campaign against President Putin is a good enough occasion to express his approval and full support to President Putin. Kasparov is the personification of evil. If you test him with a lie detector, make sure he is a liar! ”
Scandalous king
Was Bobby recruited in Moscow in the summer of 1958? The FBI says yes. Like, to a fifteen-year-old guy, "insidious Russians" slipped a twenty-five-year-old translator, and she lured him into a "honey trap." Through the bed and recruited. Hearing this, Colonel Lazarev laughed:
- Yes, at that time he did not look at the girls at all. But the translator was valued only because she, according to Bobby, possessed an invaluable gift: she knew how to give a mat to a lone king with a horse and an elephant. By the way, she had the first rank in chess.
Thanks to her mother’s letters in the Soviet Union, they knew something about a young chess genius. For example, a teenager responded about teachers as follows: “There is nothing to learn at school. Teachers are stupid. Women should not be teachers. At my school, only a physical education teacher was not stupid - he played chess well. ”
And here is an excerpt from another letter in which the mother described Robert:
“The son wears simple sports jackets and does not recognize suits and ties. Does not smoke, drink or meet with girls. Can’t dance. He is fond of swimming, tennis, skiing, ice skating. ”
Bobby was not greedy, as many believed. And the money of the Soviet intelligence would hardly be flattered. Indeed, thanks to Fisher’s requests, the size of the prize pool of the match for the World Chess Championship has grown. Robert himself said: “I will ensure that chess is treated with no less respect than boxing. No matter how much Mohammed Ali requests for his next performance, I will demand more. ”
It seems that the chess champion was not an ordinary spy. He did not need money. The James Bond Laurels never attracted a chess king. And Soviet intelligence could only use it “into the dark”: as an agent of influence.
The famous chess player could influence public opinion. For example, in declassified reports by FBI employees, Fisher’s anti-American statements were noted, in particular his sharply negative attitude to the Vietnam War. The pacifist activity of the chess player, according to the FBI leadership, damaged the US prestige and was in the hands of the Kremlin.
The patience of the American intelligence services was overwhelmed by Fisher's public ignorance of the American boycott of Yugoslavia. From the declassified documents of the FBI it is known that the Russians allegedly persuaded the local banker Ezdimir Vasilevich to allocate huge amounts of money for his agent. $ 5 million was put at stake (3.35 million to the winner and 1.65 million to the loser). And it is clear who got the prize.
But the biggest scandal caused a statement by Bobby Fisher after the September 11 attack. Then he called the Philippine radio station Radio Bombo, and said that he was delighted with the operation carried out by terrorists. The following dialogue took place live:
“Why did you approve of the terrorist attacks on America?”
“The United States and Israel have been massacres in Palestine for several decades.” No one shed tears about this in the United States. Recently, Americans killed 1,500 people in Iraq's Fallujah. And they kill people again and again. In the United States, they are talking about the September 11 tragedy, but no one is talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Much more people died here than the notorious September 11 in New York.
And there were dozens or even hundreds of such statements. It is unlikely that they were made on the instructions of Soviet intelligence.
“Is Fisher crazy?” - asked the columnist of "AN" Colonel Lazarev.
“To lose your mind, you need to have it,” Semyon Moiseevich always tried to laugh it off. And then he added: - Many of Fischer’s statements personally upset me. Our scout would never allow himself such caveman anti-Semitism.
As you know, Fisher never had problems with either drugs or alcohol. The Filipino chess player Eugenio Torre, one of the few who have talked with Fischer in recent years, says that they simply did not want to understand this person: “Crazy? Not. He is simply a man of principles. He is sane, but the opinions expressed by him are so controversial that everyone around him decided that he was crazy. ”
Help "AN"
Robert Fisher was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago. His mother Regina Fischer (nee Vender) is a Swiss Jew whose family moved to Switzerland from Poland, his father was Hans-Gerhard Fischer, a German biologist-communist who emigrated from the Nazi regime in the USSR, where he met Regina, who studied in medicine Institute. In 1939, the couple left the USSR and moved to America, but from that moment they lived separately; Regina settled in the United States, and Gerhard in Chile, and as a communist, he was not allowed to enter the United States. After the end of World War II, Gerhard returned to Germany.
But Robert's real father was Paul Nemeni, a Hungarian Jew who fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, a mathematician, Nobel Prize winner, a participant in the Manhattan project (the creation of the American atomic bomb). Nemeni took an active part in the upbringing of the boy, took care of him, paid for his studies until his death in 1952.
Cave anti-Semitism
When I had to live and work in Budapest for several years, at the same time, Robert Fischer was in the Hungarian capital. In journalistic circles then told such a story. One day, Bobby invited the Budapest radio station to interview him. The conversation ended in embarrassment. The first five minutes, the conversation was about chess. Then Fisher went over to ... anti-Semitic propaganda. And on the remark of the host about Fisher’s Jewish origin, the chess player suggested the journalist go to the toilet to sort it out.
As you know, the most ardent anti-Semites are the Jews themselves. Nevertheless, anti-Semitism, which has become one of the main contradictions in the life of a chess player, is surprising. Nobody could explain it: Bobby's mother was Jewish, he was born in the Jewish quarter. And it bears such!
For example, in one of his radio appearances, Fisher said: “America is under the complete control of the Jews. All the bosses are Jews, secret Jews or Tsereushny rats who work for Jews. "
According to Semyon Moiseevich, Fisher’s cave anti-Semitism is largely guilty of the Israeli secret services, who played the national card too clumsy when working with Robert. All attempts at recruitment failed miserably. This is well known to the Americans. However, judging by the declassified documents, the leadership of the American intelligence services still tried again to blame the Russians for everything.
After a scandalous deportation from Japan, Fisher lived in Iceland, in Reykjavik. In November 2007, he was hospitalized with renal failure. Fisher was offered surgery, but he refused. But was this illness the cause of his death, which followed on January 17, 2008? Before his death, he stated that he, among five hundred other prisoners, was irradiated with radiation in a Japanese prison. It was located next to the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Alexander Kondrashov
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