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

Letter of the acting Head of the 8th Department Colonel G.I. Funygin to Mayor General S.D. Balashov. December 8, 1992, N 317/5/836. Top Secret. See Annex 23.

Letter of Mayor General S.D. Balashov to E.M. Primakov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, December 10, 1992, N 6/03240. Secret. See Annex 24.

Letter of the Deputy Director of the SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service] of Russian Federation Major General V.M. Rozhkov 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. Secret. See Annex 25.

Letter of Major General S.D. Balashov 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. Secret. See Annex 26.

Letter of the Deputy Head of the Personnel Department of MB of Russia Colonel E. Soloviev, December 29 1992. Secret. See Annex 27.

Letter of Major General S.D. Balashov to Major General A.I. Gurov, Head of NII [the Scientific Research Institute] for Problems of Security of the Russian Federation, December 10, 1992, N 6/03239. Secret. See Annex 28.

Letter of the Head of the Institute Major General A.I. Gurov to Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation Major General S.D. Balashov. December 16, 1992, N 5/NII/76. Secret. See Annex 29.

Peter Nikulin, “The Secret of the Old Greatcoat”, Novoe Vremya , N 46, 1992, p. 44.

Georgi Arbatov, “Whom does our military-industrial complex deceive?” Moscow News , N 47, 22 November 1992.

Igor Ermakov, “The Ministry of Security Detained the Author of “Kuranty”, Kuranty , October 24, 1992.

Dmitri Frolov, “Chemical Armament is Continuing!” Nezavisimaya Gazetta , October 23, 1992.

Dmitri Frolov, “The MB RF is Seriously Worried about Chemical Secrets”, Nezavisimaya Gazetta , October 24, 1992.

Natalya Gevorkyan, “It is the Privilege of the Author to be Imprisoned According to a Law that Doesn’t Exist”, MN , November 1, 1992.

Igor Tsarev, “The Case about the Disclosure of a State Secret”, Trud , October 28, 1992.

Oleg Utitsyn, “The Case of the Chemist”, Kommersant , N 39, October 26-November 1, 1992.

P.A. Kochkin, “Moscow has Turned into a Prison”, Ekonomika I mui , November 1992.

Sjifra Hershberg, Hella Rotenberg, Ruslland produceert nieuw en giftiger zenuwgas, De Volksrant , N 20749, October 24, 1992.

Fred Hiatt, “Russia Jails Scientist over State Secrets”, Washington Post , October 27, 1992.

Will Englund, “Russian Whistle-Blower Denied Visit With Lawyer He Unmasked Plan For Chemical Arms”, Baltimore Sun , October 29, 1992.

Amy Smithson, “Russian Nerve Gas”, Baltimore Sun , October 30, 1992.

Will Englund, “Russian Who Exposed Chemical Arms Is Freed From Jail Pending Trial”, Baltimore Sun , November 3, 1992.

“Wachen umstellen “Izwestija”, Suddeutsche Zeitung nr. 249, October 28, 1992.

“Eine neue Kaltperiode?”, Seuddeutsche Zeitung , 249, October 28, 1992.

Lawrence Uzzel, “The Scientist and the Security Forces”, Crossroads , November 15, 1992. According to Mr. Lawrence Uzzell, Director of Jamestown’s Moscow office, “On November 4, Crossroads called the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to ask if the State Department had issued any statement of protest about this case. The answer: No.”

Ravil Karamov, “Gafu it, Vil Mirzayanov (Frogive us, Vil Mirzayanov)”, Vakyt (Bashkortstan), N 10, 1992.

Favziya Khairutdinova, “Vilne kotkarik (Let’s Save Vil)”, Vatanym Tatarstan , December 6, 1992.

Nanette van der Laan, “Scientist: Russia Won’t Come Clean”, The Moscow Times , December 12, 1992.

“Scientist’s Lawyer Gets Case File”, The Moscow Times , November 19, 1992.

Betsy McKay, “Scientist to Be Put on Trial”, The Moscow Times , November 2, 1992.

Serge Schmemann, “K.G.B.’s Successor Charges Scientist,” New York Times , 1 November 1992.

Frank von Hippel, “Russian Whistleblower Faces Jail,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 49, no. 2 (March 1993): 7-8.

Valeri Menshikov, Vladimir Yakimets, “The Europarliament is against the KGB”, Moscow News , N 49, December 6, 1992.

“Transcript of one Meeting”, Moscow News , November 15, 1992.

“Transcript of the interrogation of the witness N.M. Godzhello”, November 24, 1992. Investigation Department of MB RF. Case 62, vol. 1, pp.262-266. Top Secret.

“Transcript of interrogation of the witness S.S. Sokolov”, January 14, 1993. Investigation Department of MB RF, Case 62, vol. 1, pp. 271-273. Top Secret.

See ref. 40.

Vil Mirzayanov, “Testing of Chemical Weapons: Thoughtlessness or Crime”, Novoe Vremya , N 50, December of 1992.

Valeri Rudnev, “‘State Criminal’ up to now doesn’t know what his crime is”, Izvestia, January 19, 1998.

Vladislav Borovitski, “Over all Saratov is poisoned sky”, Saratov , October 22, 1993; Vitaly Zemljak, “The poisoned secrets”, Interview of Vladimir Uglev and Vladimir Petrenko by Correspondent of Radio Liberty Dmitri Volchek , Saratov , August 17, 1993; Lydia Malash,, “When they are shutting up scientists in Moscow explosions are clattering in Shikhany”, Megapolis Express , February 16, 1994; Anatoli Mikhailov, “The City-Hell, Would “ The Chemical Reactor” of Volsk-17 explode?”, Trud , April 19, 1994; Olga Nikitina, “The Shikhany Syndrome. There is a smell of impending disaster”, Saratov , May 14, 1994.

Lev Fedorov, “Chemical Weapons or Chemical Warfare?”, Khimia i Jizn , N 7, 1993, p. 67.

Oleg Vishnyakov, “Interview with a Noose around his Neck”, Novoe Vremya , N 6, 1993, p. 40.

Gordeyev, Alexander, “Chemical Arms: Russia’s Human Guinea Pig”, The Moscow Times , March 18, 1994; Will Englund, “Chemical Weapons Shadow Moscow. Russia prosecutes whistle-blowers of secret research”, Baltimore Sun , February 14, 1993; J. Michael Waller, “Post-Soviet Sakharovs: Renewed Persecution of Dissident Scientists and the American Response”, Demokratizatsiya , The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , v. II, N 1, Winter 1993/94, p. 138-147.