On March 13, 1954, the Chekists were removed from the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a new department was formed: the State Security Committee of the CCCP - KGB. The new structure was in charge of intelligence, operational search activities and the protection of the state border. In addition, the task of the KGB was to provide the CPSU Central Committee with information affecting state security. The concept is broad, to be sure: it covers both the personal life of dissidents and the study of unidentified flying objects.
It is almost impossible to separate truth from fiction, to recognize disinformation intended for “controlled leakage”. So, to believe or not to believe in the truth of the declassified secrets and mysteries of the KGB archives is everyone's personal right.
The current security officers who worked in the structure during its heyday, some with a smile, some with irritation brush it off: no secret developments were carried out, nothing paranormal was studied. But, like any other closed organization that has an impact on the fate of people, the KGB did not manage to avoid a hoax.
The activities of the committee have become overgrown with rumors and legends, and even partial declassification of the archives cannot dispel them. Moreover, the archives of the former KGB underwent a serious cleaning in the mid-50s. In addition, the wave of declassification that began in 1991-1992 quickly subsided, and now the release of data is proceeding at an almost imperceptible pace.
Hitler: Died or Escaped?
Controversy about the circumstances of Hitler's death has not subsided since May 1945. Did he commit suicide or was the body of a double found in the bunker? What happened to the remains of the Fuhrer?
In February 1962, captured documents of the Second World War were transferred to the TsGAOR of the USSR (the modern State Archives of the Russian Federation). And along with them are fragments of a skull and a sofa armrest with traces of blood.
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Vasily Khristoforov, head of the FSB's registration and archival funds, told Interfax that the remains were found during an investigation into the disappearance of the former German Reich President in 1946. The forensic examination identified the partially charred remains as fragments of the parietal bones and the occipital bone of an adult. The act of May 8, 1945 states: the discovered pieces of the skull, “may have fallen off the corpse removed from the pit on May 5, 1945”.
“The documentary materials with the results of the re-investigation were combined into a case with the symbolic title“Myth”. The materials of the named case, as well as the materials of the investigation into the circumstances of the Fuhrer's death in 1945, stored in the Central Archives of the FSB of Russia, were declassified in the 90s of the last century and became available to the general public,”the agency's source said.
What remained of the top of the Nazi elite and did not end up in the KGB archives did not immediately find rest: the bones were repeatedly reburied, and on March 13, 1970, Andropov ordered the seizure and destruction of the remains of Hitler, Brown and the Goebbels couple. This is how the plan of the secret event "Archive", carried out by the operational group of the Special Department of the KGB of the 3rd Army of the GSVG, appeared. Two acts were drawn up. The latter reads: “The destruction of the remains was carried out by burning them at the stake in a vacant lot near the town of Schönebeck, 11 kilometers from Magdeburg. The remains were burned out, crushed into ash together with coal, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River.
It is difficult to say what Andropov was guided by when he gave such an order. Most likely, he feared - and not unreasonably - that even after a while the fascist regime would find followers, and the burial place of the ideologue of the dictatorship would become a place of pilgrimage.
By the way, in 2002, the Americans announced that they had X-rays, which were kept by the dentist, SS Oberführer Hugo Blaschke. Verification with the fragments available in the archives of the Russian Federation once again confirmed the authenticity of the parts of Hitler's jaw.
But despite the seemingly irrefutable evidence, the version that the Fuhrer managed to leave Germany, occupied by Soviet troops, does not leave modern researchers alone. They are usually looking for him in Patagonia. Indeed, Argentina after World War II gave shelter to many Nazis who tried to escape justice. There were even witnesses that Hitler, along with other fugitives, appeared here in 1947. It's hard to believe: even the official radio of fascist Germany on that memorable day announced the death of the Fuhrer in an unequal struggle against Bolshevism.
Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the first to question the fact of Hitler's suicide. A month after the victory, he said: “The situation is very mysterious. We did not find an identified body of Hitler. I cannot say anything in the affirmative about the fate of Hitler. At the very last minute, he could fly out of Berlin, since the runways allowed him to do it. It was June 10th. And the body was found on May 5, the autopsy report was dated May 8. … Why did the question about the authenticity of the Fuhrer's body arise only a month later?
The official version of Soviet historians is as follows: On April 30, 1945, Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide. At the same time, according to eyewitnesses, the Fuhrer shot himself. By the way, when opening the mouth, glass was found, which speaks in favor of the version with poison.
Unidentified flying objects
It is generally believed that the KGB was well versed in the study of unidentified flying objects: is it not the primary task of the security forces to protect the country from any outside invasion?
Anton Pervushin in his author's investigation cites one illustrative story characterizing the attitude of the KGB to the phenomenon. This story was once loved by the writer and assistant to the chairman of the committee Igor Sinitsyn, who worked for Yuri Andropov from 1973 to 1979.
“Once, while looking through the foreign press, I came across a series of articles about unidentified flying objects - UFOs … I dictated to a stenographer in Russian an extract from them and, together with the magazines, carried them to the chairman. …. He flipped through the materials quickly. After a little thought, he suddenly took out a thin folder from a drawer on his desk. The folder contained a report from one of the officers of the 3rd Directorate, that is, the military counterintelligence service,”Sinitsyn recalled.
The information transferred to Andropov could well become the plot of a science fiction film: an officer, being on a night fishing trip with his friends, watched as one of the stars approached the Earth and took the form of an aircraft. The navigator estimated the size and location of the object by eye: diameter - about 50 meters, height - about five hundred meters above sea level.
“He saw two bright beams coming out of the center of the UFO. One of the rays stood vertically to the surface of the water and rested against it. Another beam, like a searchlight, swept the waters around the boat. Suddenly he stopped, illuminating the boat. After shining a few more seconds on him, the beam went out. Together with it, the second, vertical beam went out, - quoted the report of the counterintelligence officer Sinitsyn.
According to his own testimony, these materials later came to Kirilenko and eventually seemed to be lost in the archives. This is roughly what the skeptics reduce the KGB's probable interest in the UFO problem: to pretend that it is interesting, but in fact to bury the materials in the archives as potentially insignificant.
In November 1969, almost 60 years after the fall of the Tunguska meteorite (which, according to some researchers, was not a fragment of a celestial body, but a wrecked spacecraft), there was a message about another fall of an unidentified object on the territory of the Soviet Union. Not far from the village of Berezovsky in the Sverdlovsk region, several glowing balls were seen in the sky, one of which began to lose altitude, fell, and then a strong explosion followed. In the late 1990s, a number of media outlets had at their disposal a film that allegedly captured the work of investigators and scientists at the site of the alleged UFO crash in the Urals. The work was supervised by "a man who looks like a KGB worker."
“Our family was living in Sverdlovsk at that time, and my relatives even worked in the regional party committee. However, even there, almost no one knew the whole truth about the incident. In Berezovsky, where our acquaintances lived, everyone accepted the legend of the exploded granary; those who saw the UFO chose not to spread. The disc was taken out, presumably, in the dark, in order to avoid unnecessary witnesses,”contemporaries recalled.
It is noteworthy that even the ufologists themselves, people initially disposed to believe in the stories about UFOs, criticized these videos: the uniforms of Russian soldiers, their manner of holding weapons, cars flashing in the frame - all this did not inspire confidence even among susceptible people. True, denial of one particular video does not mean that UFO believers are giving up their beliefs.
Vladimir Azhazha, a ufologist, an acoustic engineer by training, said: “Whether the state is hiding any information about UFOs from the public, we must assume that it is. On what grounds? Based on the list of information constituting state and military secrets. Indeed, in 1993, the State Security Committee of the Russian Federation, at the written request of the then president of the Ufological Association, pilot-cosmonaut Pavel Popovich, handed over to the UFO center I headed about 1300 documents related to UFOs. These were reports from official bodies, commanders of military units, messages from private individuals."
Occult interests
In the 1920s and 1930s, a prominent figure of the Cheka / OGPU / NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) Gleb Bokiy, the one who created laboratories for the development of drugs to influence the minds of those arrested, became interested in the study of extrasensory perception and even looked for the legendary Shambhala.
After his execution in 1937, folders with the results of the experiments allegedly ended up in the secret archives of the KGB. After Stalin's death, some of the documents were irretrievably lost, the rest settled in the basements of the committee. Under Khrushchev, the work continued: America was worried about the rumors periodically coming from overseas about the invention of biogenerators, mechanisms that control thinking.
Separately, it is worth mentioning another object of close attention of the Soviet security forces - the famous mentalist Wolf Messing. Despite the fact that he himself, and later his biographers, willingly shared intriguing stories about the outstanding abilities of the hypnotist, the KGB archives have not preserved any documentary evidence of Messing's "miracles". In particular, there is no information in either Soviet or German documents that Messing fled Germany after predicting the fall of fascism, and Hitler appointed a reward for his head. Also, it is impossible to confirm or deny the data that Messing personally met with Stalin and that he tested his outstanding abilities, forcing him to perform certain tasks.
On the other hand, information about Ninel Kulagina, who in 1968 attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies with her extraordinary abilities, has been preserved. The abilities of this woman (or their lack?) Are still controversial: among lovers of the supernatural, she is revered as a pioneer, and among the learned fraternity, her achievements cause at least an ironic smile.
Meanwhile, video chronicles of those years recorded how Kulagina, without the help of her hand or any devices, rotates the compass needle, moves small objects, such as a matchbox. The woman complained during the experiments of back pain, and her pulse was 180 beats per minute. Its secret was, allegedly, that the energy field of the hands, due to the superconcentration of the subject, could move objects that fell into the zone of his influence.
It is also known that after the end of World War II, a unique device made by Hitler's personal order came to the Soviet Union as a trophy: it served for astrological predictions of a military-political nature. The device was defective, but Soviet engineers restored it, and it was transferred to the astronomical station near Kislovodsk.
Knowledgeable people said that Major General of the FSB Georgy Rogozin (in 1992-1996, the former first deputy chief of the presidential security service and who received the nickname "Nostradamus in uniform" for his studies of astrology and telekinesis) used captured SS archives related to occult sciences in his research.