Blog Series: Reading Secret Journals of the KGB
Title: The Higher School of the KGB Special Department “M”: KGB Activities in the Special Period and the Wartime (1989)
Author: Lt. Colonel L. M. Lutsenko
Publication: Volume 45, Papers of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB, Moscow, 1989, pages 414-415. Classified as Top Secret.
Translated by Filip Kovacevic, PhD
This summary has never been officially declassified by the Russian government and is published here in English translation for the first time.
Summary
The Review of Scientific Articles and Reports
by the Professors and Graduates of the Special Department “M”
“Some Issues in the Activities of the KGB USSR in the Special Period and the Wartime” Volume 4 (1989)
The 4th volume of the Review of Scientific Articles and Reports is written by the collective of authors about the issues related to the KGB activities in the special period and the wartime.
A.I. Tsvetkov tackles some questions in the restructuring of the students’ independent study at the Higher School when taking the Special Discipline “M” course.
P. E. Petrenko sheds light on the methodological recommendations for gaining practical skills and habits concerning the Special Discipline “M” course in the context of the restructuring of educational institutions.
V. P. Galitskiy presents the methodology for the study of the prisoners of war and the assessment of its results.
P. E. Petrenko and L. M. Lutsenko investigate the wartime military district as the object of subversive activities by the intelligence services of the main adversary.
A. I. Kozlovtsev presents the likely status and tasks of the military counterintelligence service on the territory of the adversary captured by the Soviet military during the war operations on the Western front.
V. P. Belov analyzes the problems of the increase in the mobilization readiness of the special departments of the KGB USSR in the Soviet military group in Germany in their work with the agent network.
L. M. Lutsenko examines the questions of the organization and conduct of territorial defense in contemporary conditions.
A. S. Starodubets presents some experiences of the KGB USSR Border Guard intelligence units in defeating the bandit groups on the territory of the Republic of Afghanistan.
The article of E. A. Mokhov presents some unique features in the organization of the contact with agents used in the fight against the subversive activities of the gang formations in Afghanistan.
F. Kh. Subkhankulov sheds light on the questions of the use of prophylactic, legal, and military measures by the special departments of the KGB USSR in the Soviet Army in the fight against ideological sabotage by the adversary.
The Review of Scientific Articles and Reports is deposited in the special fund of the Scientific Library at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB (no. 28894-n).
