from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Spy vs. Spy Under Putin, the Spies Are Again in Charge Student expelled for refusing to cooperate. THE case of a student expelled from college for refusing to work as an informer gives a chilling insight into the ruthless recruiting methods of the KGB's successors and their new self-confidence under President Putin Dmitry Barkovsky, 20, from St Petersburg, who is an activist for the liberal Yabloko party, says FSB recruiters threatened to draft him into the army and post him to Chechnya unless he co-operated. He has mounted a legal challenge to the expulsion but has discovered that local prosecutors justify the activities of the FSB, Russia's domestic intelligence service, as "correct from a state point of view". Yesterday Mr Barkovsky said: "I think it is very dangerous for the country as a whole." His experience is the best known of many recent examples of the FSB and other law enforcement bodies, heartened by the election of a former KGB officer as president, trying to reassert their grip on Russian life. A network of informers at every institute and workplace was a key element in the KGB's control of the Soviet Union. Mr Putin has praised such a system as "an important part of the state's existence". The fact that, as a student, Mr Barkovsky was exempt from conscription did not impress the FSB officers, who continued their efforts to blackmail him. According to a transcript of their conversation that he prepared later, they said his student status could be changed. They were alleged to have said: "We can alter that very quickly. If you help us, it won't happen." Yabloko, a mainstream pro-reform party with 21 seats in parliament, "arouses our suspicions", they told him. "We need to know whether these people are passing information abroad." They are said to have told him: "The most important thing is that you help us because that is your civic duty. If everything goes well, you won't have any problems with your studies or your work in the future." Mr Barkovsky signed a piece of paper agreeing to co-operate, but within days his problems began. The fourth-year student of aviation and missile construction at the Baltic State Technical University discovered that he was barred from sitting his summer exams and was later expelled. According to the university, he was dismissed for poor academic results, a charge he hotly denies. His rector, Yuri Savelev, earned notoriety for sacking four American lecturers at the start of Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. US accusations that the institute was training Iranian military specialists in missile technology were found by the Russian authorities to be true. Despite being the city where Mr Putin began his KGB career in the 1970s, St Petersburg is one of Russia's most liberal centres, with a large number of Yabloko supporters prepared to support Mr Barkovsky. But attempts to have his expulsion overruled have run into opposition from local prosecutors. His treatment is part of a recent pattern of heavy-handed behaviour by law-enforcement bodies. Academics with no access to state secrets have been told to report on their contacts with foreigners, a practice that died out with the collapse of communism. Much of the behaviour is reminiscent of the Soviet era and also a symptom of a desire by petty officials to ingratiate themselves with their leaders. The London Telegraph, July 5, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
