Former KGB Chief Reveals Supernatural Truth

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Komsomolskaya Pravda



Former KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov spent 20 years in the Soviet intelligence agencies. In an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily he reveals what the KGB knows about UFOs and other supernatural phenomena, life in space and secret agents’ secret methods.

The media keep telling us about UFOs and a variety of other supernatural phenomena. Researchers and cosmonauts may have different opinions on the matter, but all of them are sure of one thing: that exact information can be obtained from the intelligence agencies. You headed the Soviet secret service for the longest period of time, 17 years, that is, from 1971 to 1988. You also chaired the KGB from 1988 to 1991. You must be able to give us the ultimate truth — are there any UFOs out there?

We have never received any proof whatsoever that UFOs or other supernatural phenomena actually exist.

The authorities asked me many times to prove or refute reports of this or that inexplicable incident on the planet. Most frequently I received requests concerning UFOs and yetis, the “snow people”. I would commission our best specialists and agents to find out where the reports that worried society so much came from. In the end it always turned out to be pure imagination. Sometimes an ignorant observer would interpret an unfamiliar phenomenon in a mystical way, sometimes a perfectly ordinary event would be called supernatural to make news. Often the people would add the KGB knew about the supernatural phenomenon, but wanted to keep it secret.
http://mosnews.com/interview/2005/12/06/kgbchief.shtml

[mike_c]

1. oh come on, you can tell just by looking at him...

...that he's a pod person.

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2. Given the subject matter and the publication it appears in...

...it is a surprisingly lucid and rational article. It's worth reading.

[TlalocW]

3. The Russians were heavily into...

This kind of supernatural mumbo-jumbo even experimenting with psychics who professed various abilities (they were hacks doing magic tricks), and that caused the Pentagon to worry about America having a "psi" gap so we started our own program which unfortunately lent an air of credence to the spoon benders, cold readers, and astral projecters in the US. Clinton discontinued that branch of research when he became president. Bush brought it back for some reason.

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