Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy (born in 1953 in Moscow) is a former KGB officer, an intelligence expert and author of several books and numerous articles about Russian secret police organizations.
He is known for his publications about KGB operations in Japan, recruitment of Russian emigrants by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and infiltration of Russian Orthodox Church by the KGB/FSB.
He graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countr...
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Konstantin Preobrazhenskiy (born in 1953 in Moscow) is a former KGB officer, an intelligence expert and author of several books and numerous articles about Russian secret police organizations.
He is known for his publications about KGB operations in Japan, recruitment of Russian emigrants by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and infiltration of Russian Orthodox Church by the KGB/FSB.
He graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countries of the Moscow State University in 1976 and started working in the Foreign Intelligence department of the KGB. He was an advisor on China, Japan and Korea to Leonid Zaitsev, the Head of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence (Directorate “T”), in the First Chief Directorate.
In 1980-85 Preobrazhenskiy worked under cover as a TASS correspondent at the KGB station in Tokyo . He recruited Chinese scholars for the Soviet Scientific and Technical Intelligence. In July 1985, the Japanese police arrested him at a meeting with his Chinese agent,...
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