There are many legends about the famous Soviet Chekists. What the KGB officers were not accused of - they say, the watchdogs of the regime, capable of taking the lives of a dozen people for the sake of another star on their epaulets. Today, with the restructuring of the state security service, many papers from the secret archives are made publicly available. Of course, no one is going to naively believe that people are shown documents in their original form: almost certainly everything that is most important remains under the cover of secrecy. However, even from scraps of information, you can get a rough idea of the affairs that happened under the roof of the State Security Committee.
Portable nuclear weapons
Back in 1997, General Alexander Lebed, in one of the rather chaotic interviews, let slip that the special services have about a hundred portable nuclear devices with a capacity of one kiloton each. Literally two days later, Lebed renounced his words, writing it off as fatigue and a slip of the tongue. However, physics professor Aleksey Yablokov confirmed the presence of such devices. According to the data received from him, in the mid-70s, the top leadership of the KGB ordered the development of nuclear charges for terrorist operations. Moreover, there was information about the presence of similar devices in the United States.
Operation "Flute"
The secret services of the Soviet Union were often accused of developing biological weapons. According to some reports, the first samples of biological weapons were tested on the Germans at Stalingrad - the enemy was infected with rats. In the 90s, microbiologist Kanatzhan Alibekov, who emigrated to the United States, spoke about the KGB's secret operation "Flute", within the framework of which the latest psychotropic drugs were created and tested. Alibekov claimed that the KGB leadership planned to provoke a conflict with the United States and unleash a real biological war.
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Blue folder
Any citizen of the Soviet Union knew for sure: there is no God, no devil, let alone non-Polish nonsense. At the same time, any eyewitness reports about UFOs ended up in the KGB special department, where they were carefully documented. In 1967, a prominent physicist, mathematician and staunch ufologist Felix Siegel appeared on TV due to someone's oversight. Immediately after that, the group of the scientist at the USSR Academy of Sciences was disbanded by an order from above, and all the materials collected by the researchers went to the KGB. Here they were filed into the so-called "Blue folder", curated by the head of the Chekists, Yuri Andropov.