Filip Kovacevic: In the early 1960s, the foreign intelligence branch of the Lithuanian KGB, formally known as the First Department, produced a summary description of how its agent deceived the U.S. intelligence operatives in West Germany by pretending to be a defector from the KGB.1
This KGB document offers valuable insights on how the KGB ran fake defector operations during the Cold War and how the Russian intelligence services might do so today. The cover stories and technologies might be different, but the intentions and tactics have remained the same…