1934. Oleg Kalugin was born

80 years ago, on September 6, 1934, the Major General of the KGB Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, the People’s Deputy of the USSR in the era of perestroika, who advocated reforming the state security agencies and cooperating with “democratic Russia”, was born.

In 1995, Kalugin left for the United States, where he had previously published memoirs “The First Main Directorate. My 32 years in reconnaissance and espionage against the West. ” Former colleagues accused him of disclosing Soviet agents in the United States. Kalugin invariably denied these accusations.

In 2002, according to the correspondence verdict of the Moscow City Court, Oleg Kalugin was deprived of the military rank of Major General of the KGB of the USSR and all state awards of the USSR and sentenced to 15 years in prison in a maximum security colony. Kalugin refused to come to the court, saying that Putin could not be an objective court in “espionage” cases.