Talk:Blowing up Russia: Terror from within
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Please Note: The book uses my interview with Alexi Galkin without permission or accreditation - Robert Young Pelton. For further information please refer to "Three World's Gone Mad (Lyons Press)
O'K. If we describe this case here, we can make reference to "Three World's Gone Mad. Biophys 23:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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Testimony of Senior Lieutenant Alexei Galkin following November 18, 1999 [Senior lieutenant A.V. Galkin is giving an interview to a group of foreign journalists,including one from America and one from Turkey. The questions are asked in English and translated into Russian. The print-out gives the Russian translations of the questions as spoken by the interpreter and Galkin’s replies.]
Journalist/Interpreter (further: Journalist): can you introduce yourself please.
Galkin: Assistant head of sector senior lieutenant Alexei Viktorovich Galkin, employee …(the foreign journalists point out that Galkin is badly seated and the camera light is not falling on him. They seat Galkin a bit further to the right.)
Journalist: You can move this way a bit closer to the light. Say it again into the camera, please.
Galkin: Assistant head of sector senior lieutenant Alexei Viktorovich Galkin, employee of the Central Intelligence Office [GRU] of the Russian Federation.
Journalist: Can I ask you, please, how you came to be here?
Galkin: Together with major Ivanov and senior lieutenant Pokhomov, I was arrestedon October 3 on the territory of the Chechen republic of Ichkeria during an attempt to drive from Mozdok to the settlement of Bino-Yurt in order to carry out a special assignment.
Journalist: And during the attempted crossing all these documents here – this here isyour identity pass, this here – did you have it on you? [Shows the identity pass]
Galkin: I had this pass on me, and these documents here were in our personal belongings.
Journalist: And what exactly is the purpose of this information here, that there is in this little book, what kind of information is in it?
Galkin: In here there is a verbal exchange table [he shows it] for working with communications equipment, that is a table of coded messages for transmitting information via open channels of communication such as ultra-short wave radio sets like “Motorola,” “Kenwood” and radio telephones.
Journalist: What is the purpose of the information in this little book here? [shows the book]?
Galkin: It is a notebook with mathematical formulas for blowing up constructions, Page 165 structures, buildings and various facilities.
Journalist: Is this your note, your handwriting?
Galkin: Yes, that is my handwriting.
Journalist: What were you intending to do with this information, with the help of this information?
Galkin: Our task was to mine the motor roads in order to destroy motor vehicles with refugees and peaceful members of the public and also in the future for mining buildings and blowing up buildings with peaceful members of the public. Journalist: Did you take part in the bombing of buildings in Moscow and Dagestan?
Galkin: I personally did not take part in the bombing of the buildings in Moscow and Dagestan, but I know who blew them up, who is behind the bombing of buildings in Moscow and who blew up the buildings in Buinaksk. Journalist: Can you tell us who?
Galkin: For blowing up the buildings in Moscow and in Volgodonsk the Russian special services are responsible, the FSB together with the GRU [Central Intelligence Office]. The bombing of the buildings in Buinaksk was the work of members of our group, which at the time was on a mission in Dagestan.
Journalist: And as far as I know, here you have been recorded on tape, you confessed to all this, apparently you were filmed with a video camera. And when … when you, during the filming were you acting from your own wishes?
Voice off camera of the head of the Chechen Security Service Abu Movsaev: That … Don’t answer that question.
Journalist: How have you been treated here?
Galkin: I’ve been treated well here. As I prisoner of war I have not been beaten here, they have fed me three times a day and when necessary given me medical assistance.
Journalist: Here is the statement made by you. Do you confirm that you made it voluntarily without any pressure on the part of anyone?
Galkin: This statement is printed from my words, I wrote this statement by hand [holds the piece of paper in front of his face], with my personal signature.
Journalist: Now, at this moment, as you are speaking with us, are you afraid of anything?
Galkin: No, it is simply that this is the first time I have faced journalists … journalists from western television companies, so I am a bit nervous.
Abu Movsaev’s voice off camera: Their departments are not allowed to appear on … Galkin: It is quite simply that due to the nature of our work we have to … we are not supposed to show ourselves in front of television cameras. [Smiles tensely.]
Journalist: Thank you.
Voice off camera: Ah, yes, now questions, only in Turkish … Come over here
Journalist: They’re the same questions, only in Turkish, they will ask and that is all[Questions are asked in Turkish, then translated into Russian.]
Journalist: Do you confirm that all these documents belong to you? This identity pass here, this statement, it all belongs to you. [Galkin shows the identity pass in an open position.] Galkin: yes, all these documents belong to me.
Journalist: With what aim did you arrive in the region of Dagestan and afterwards in Chechnya?
Galkin: We arrived in Dagestan and Chechnya to carry out terrorist acts on the territory of Dagestan and on the territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Journalist: And against whom were these, were they directed? Were you supposed tocarry out explosions against peaceful civilians or somebody else?
Galkin: These bombings were directed against peaceful civilians.
Journalist: And who … Who was it that sent you on this mission? Galkin: We were appointed and sent on our mission by order of the Central Intelligence Office [GRU] of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Journalist: Can you name the actual man who sent you?
Galkin: It was colonel general Korabelnikov, head of the Central Intelligence Office and head of the 14th section of the Central Intelligence Office lieutenant general Kostechko.
Journalist: Do you personally and does your unit have anything to do with the explosions in Moscow?
Galkin: Personally our unit has nothing to do with the explosions in Moscow, since at that time we were in Dagestan. The members of our unit, the members of our unit of 12 men, who were in Dagestan at that time, carried out the bombing of the house in Buinaksk. Biophys 18:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
