Вил Мирзаянов - State Secrets - An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program

December 10, 1992 N 6/03240

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation is investigating the criminal case of the former employee of the State Russian Science Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov, who was disclosing information about scientific research in the area of chemical weapons to the mass media.

An expert commission was appointed for determining the authenticity and degree of secrecy of the information divulged by Mirzayanov.

The accused Mirzayanov wrote a petition asking to include Reserve Major General Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, a former employee of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, in the expert commission.

In connection with this, please inform us if job responsibilities of O. D. Kalugin entailed any kind of involvement with scientific research in the area of chemical weapons. Is he a specialist in the technology of special substances or the protection of secrets in the area of scientific research aimed at the development of chemical weapons?

Head of the Department,

Major General

S.D. Balashov

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Copy 1.

OFFICE OF THE FOREIGN

INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

To Major General S.D. Balashov,

Head of the Investigation Department

of the Ministry of Security of Russia

December 17, 1992 N 153/5-13265

In response to N 6/03240 of December 10, 1992

Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, was born in 1934, has a higher humanitarian education, and has served in the Foreign Intelligence Services as a soldier and commander from 1958 until 1979. He was working in political intelligence, counterintelligence and supporting individuals and institutions abroad. His job responsibilities didn’t entail any kind of involvement with scientific research in the sphere of chemical weapons.

Deputy Director of the RF SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service]

of the Russian Federation

Major General

V.M. Rozhkov

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THE MINISTRY OF SECURITY

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Investigation Department

To Major General Yu. N. Lukonin,

Head of the Personnel Department

at the Ministry of Security

of the Russian Federation

December 10, 1992 N 6/03238

The Investigation Department of the RF Ministry of Security is investigating the criminal case of a former employee of the State Russian Science Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov, who was disclosing to the mass media information about scientific research in the field of chemical weapons.

An expert commission has been appointed to determine the authenticity and the degree of secrecy of the information divulged by Mirzayanov.

The accused Mirzayanov wrote a petition asking to include Reserve Major General O. D. Kalugin, a former employee of the KGB, in the expert commission.

In connection with this, please inform us if the job responsibilities of Oleg D. Kalugin entailed any kind of involvement with scientific research in the sphere of chemical weapons, if he was a specialist in the technology of special substances or the protection of secrets in the area of scientific research aimed at the development of chemical weapons.

Head of the Department,

Major General

S.D. Balashov

(For some reason there are two copies of this masterpiece of the KGB in my case. On the first there are the following official handwritten notations – V.M.):

For Comrade V.N. Kazakov

Comrade Yu. V. Novoselov

Comrade Yu. I. Smirnov

E.B. Soloviev

Please prepare a response,

Lukonin

December 11, 1992

Please work through this question with the Department of the MB [Ministry of Security] for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region and with the Foreign Intelligence Service and prepare a response.

To A.V. Ilyakov

Please talk it over

Soloviev

December 15

It was discussed Ilyakov December 16, 1992

To A. Kuvshinov

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To Major General S.D. Balashov,

Head of the Investigation Department

of the Ministry of Security

of the Russian Federation

We are reporting that as a result of studying the personal file of Reserve Major General O. D. Kalugin, which is kept in the Military-Mobilization Department of the MB of Russia for Moscow and the Moscow Region, it was established that he graduated in 1956 from the Leningrad Institute of Foreign Languages at the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers; his major was consultant-interpreter.

There is no information that his responsibilities during this period entailed involvement with scientific research in the field of chemical weapons. The Department of the MB of Russia confirms this information for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region during the period of time when Oleg D. Kalugin worked at that department.

Deputy Head of the Personnel Department

of the MB of Russia.

Colonel

E. Soloviev

December 29, 1992

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Copy N 1

THE MINISTRY OF SECURITY

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Investigation Department

To Major General A.I. Gurov,

Head of NII [the Research Institute] for

the Problems of Security

of the Russian Federation

December 10, 1992 N 6/03239

The Investigation Department of the RF Ministry of Security is investigating the criminal case of the former employee of the State Russian Science Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology, Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov, who was disclosing information to the mass media about scientific research in the area of chemical weapons.

An expert commission has been appointed to determine the authenticity and degree of secrecy of the information divulged by Mirzayanov.

The accused Mirzayanov wrote a petition asking to include Colonel of Justice Petr Segreevich Nikulin, Deputy Head of NII for Problems of Security at the MB RF, in the expert commission.

In connection with this, please inform us if the job responsibilities of Petr S. Nikulin entailed any kind of involvement with scientific research in the area of chemical weapons. Is he a specialist in the technology of special substances or a specialist in the protection of state secrets in the area of scientific research aimed at the development of chemical weapons?

Head of the Department,

Major General

S.D. Balashov

Secret

Copy 1

THE MINISTRY OF SECURITY

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The Research Institute for

Matters of Security

To Major General S.D. Balashov,

Head of the Investigation Department, of

the Ministry of Security

of the Russian Federation

December 16, 1992 N 5/NII/76

Moscow

In response to your inquiry regarding the former Deputy Head of the Research Institute for Matters of Security at the RF Ministry of Security, we are giving notice that during his work at the institute, Petr Sergeevich Nikulin never performed any work in the area of chemical weapons. He is neither a specialist in the technologies of special substances, nor a specialist in protecting state secrets in the area of scientific research aimed at the development of chemical weapons. Since January 24 of this year, Nikulin has been at the disposal of the Staff Headquarters of the RF Ministry of Security and currently he is retired from active service.

Head of the Institute,

Major General

A.I. Gurov

executed by S. A. Knut

Tel. 388-91-64

N 5/NII /76

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