And at the same time, in his first and last interview, he told about how they caught a spy in a pigsty.
Still from video: object next to NATO fighters in Italy. Read about him in the material on our website "UFOs almost started the Third World War."
Never before had I had the chance to communicate with a counterintelligence officer. I guess I should have felt at least a feeling of discomfort. Still, a representative of such a profession … But there was a feeling that the interlocutor was afraid of me more than I was of him. Perhaps because this amazing person met a journalist for the first time in his life …
PLATE CHIEF
Reserve Major Vasily Kuzminykh caught spies and watched the flying saucer. The Chelyabinsk inventor, who patented, among other things, an artificial muscle and a "home" installation for the production of artificial diamonds, spoke about his "Chekist" past.
Third Main Directorate. Special department of the KGB of the USSR. Military counterintelligence. Vasily served in this unit for many years. A native of Samara, he graduated from the aviation equipment faculty of the Daugavpils Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. He was trained in the specialization "System of automated flight control of aircraft".
Vasily Mikhailovich, it turns out that you were the "master of the skeet"?
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- On skeet, not on skeet … But I can say that everything is tied to the flight control system of aircraft. She acts as a crew. Even at that time, aircraft were automatically launched to intercept air targets. The pilot only had to exercise control, receive commands from the ground for destruction and "press the trigger" …
The system even made a combat lapel itself so as not to get into the zone of destruction of fragments from its missiles. We have served these systems.
After college, he was assigned to Khankala, from Grozny he was sent to Ingushetia, to Sleptsovsk. And in 1984, Vasily Kuzmins was taken from the Ministry of Defense to serve in the KGB of the USSR. In the area of his attention was everything that belonged to the section of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR "Especially dangerous state crimes".
WEST IN THE PIG
When Kuzminykh served in the group of forces in the united Germany, he happened to catch werewolves together with colleagues from the special department.
90th Guards Tank Division as part of the 20th Separate Combined Arms Army. The opera was daily uploading data to an automated information system. The case ended with the capture and arrest of a spy who was interested in the Tunguska anti-aircraft missile system.
- We went to a recruited conscript who was looking for approaches to secret carriers. The capture of the spy, to whom he was supposed to hand over the documents, took place like in a movie, - Vasily Mikhailovich recalls. - There was an army pigsty outside the military unit. There we have scheduled a meeting. The day before, in the dark, they dug a hole for armed Soviet secret service officers, covered it with a plywood sheet, and covered it with fallen leaves.
Instead of a warrant officer, a disguised KGB officer came to the meeting. He offered the spy a drink. No no! Show the documents first,”was the answer. When the folder was in our hands, investigators and counterintelligence officers literally appeared from under the ground. The spy was shocked!
And then what happened?
“We… let him go. Before, of course, as expected, they documented all of his criminal activities and said: "Well, now it's a sin not to drink - to wash our successful operation." A glass of brandy was also poured to him. Our guys later handed him over to the German police. It was impossible to aggravate the relationship. It was the 92nd year.
Vasily Kuzminykh did not part with weapons in civilian life.
COMPROMATE FOR GENERALS
In 1993, when the White House was taken by storm, Kuzminykh resigned from the authorities for reasons of principle: he had materials on illegal currency transactions in the Western group of forces at his disposal. Moreover, the direct leadership of Vasily was involved.
- Many generals ran around then. I was checked already in my own security service. What if I am not going to Russia with such sentiments, but will go over, and I will have something to tell? But when they talked to me, they realized that I did not pose any threat. And the compromising ones were destroyed by my leadership.
OBJECT OF "NENASHEN NATURE"
But back to the beginning of our conversation. About flying saucers, what do you think?
- I saw a UFO when I served in Azerbaijan. The object flew over our part. Its diameter … Well, the pilots who were in the air on parallel courses said different things.
The pilots who saw him from afar claimed that he was 800 meters in diameter. And those who flew in the immediate vicinity said - 80 meters, like a stadium. Just a blue ball, the color of a gas burner.
He moved at a speed of 700 km / h, walked at the same height. No explanation was found then. I concluded that this is a phenomenon beyond our knowledge. By the way, the pilots noted that there was no turbulence in the atmosphere. That is, it is clear: nature is "non-Nashenskaya".
I remember that my manager, when he received all the documents on this incident from me, said: “Well, what resolution should I write on these papers of yours? In short, I tear them all! Stop doing nonsense! Look for spies better."
“It seems that is exactly what everyone is doing
- And you imagine yourself in the place of the military commander. We have to do something further, write off these pieces of paper to someone …
Hmm … Probably, too
The real James Bond.
I DO NOT DRINK AT ALL
Vasily Kuzminykh got married while still serving in Grozny in the 83rd year. When he filed a report, he went to his wife's homeland - to Chelyabinsk.
He worked in the banking sector, in the construction business. But I always found time for technical creativity. He loved inventions since childhood: he attended ship modeling and aircraft modeling circles. As far as he can remember, he was constantly making something.
Vasily Mikhailovich has not been drinking alcohol for many years. Encoded? Or is he insured so that the tongue does not inadvertently untie?.. It turned out, neither one nor the other.
- I have always drunk alcohol in moderation and have never been a smoker. My father was always so hard at home that it was too much. And after fifty … You know, life flies by very quickly. Not many are left, but there are a lot of plans! Why harm your own body? I just decided not to drink. Even on New Years.
You know, it seems to me that even now, in principle, you could be a good James Bond
- Why "could be"? I am he (laughs). We don't exist.
P. S. It so happened that the first frank conversation between Vasily Mikhailovich and the journalist was the last. The 58-year-old hero of the essay died right behind the wheel, without waiting for the material to be published. Heart stopped …
TATIANA STROGANOVA