Stanislav Lunev
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Stanislav Lunev (born 1946 in Leningrad) is the highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States.
He was born in the family of a Soviet Army officer. He graduated from the Suvorov Military School in Vladikavkaz, and then from Joint Arms High Command Military Academy, a Soviet equivalent of United States Military Academy.
He then worked as a GRU intelligence officer in Singapore in 1978, in China from 1980, and in the United States from 1988. He defected to U.S. authorities in 1992. Since then he has worked as a consultant to the FBI, CIA and other agencies and private corporations. He remains in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program.
Lunev published book "Through the Eyes of the Enemy" [1]. He also occasionaly writes for Internet newspapers [2] In the book, he described his successful work as a Soviet spy. He said, among other things:
- "The best spy will be everyone's best friend, not a shadowy figure in the corner"
- "Though most Americans do not realize it, America is penetrated by Russian military intelligence to the extent that arms caches lie in wait for use by Russian special forces."
- "The most sensitive activity of the GRU is gathering intelligence on American leaders, and there is only one purpose for this intelligence: targeting information for spetsnaz (special forces) assassination squads"
- "The GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad."
[edit] References
- ^ Stanislav Lunev. Through the Eyes of the Enemy: The Autobiography of Stanislav Lunev, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-89526-390-4
- ^ Col. Stanislav Lunev in NewsMax.com
