According to Allende's KGB file, Allende " was made to understand the necessity of reorganising Chile's army and intelligence services, and of setting up a relationship between Chile's and the USSR's intelligence services ".

According to the Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, the KGB and the Cuban Intelligence Directorate launched a campaign known as Operation TOUCAN.

According to Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, who undertook the task of processing the Mitrokhin Archive, Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the original three founding members of the FSLN had been recruited by the KGB in 1959 while on a trip to Moscow.

According to Andrew, Mitrokhin says during the following three years the KGB handpicked several dozen Sandinistas for intelligence and sabotage operations in the United States.

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

According The Mitrokhin Archive investigators, Le Monde ( KGB codename VESTNIK, " messenger ") was the KGB's key outlet for spreading anti-American and pro-Soviet disinformation to the French media.

According to senior SVR officer Sergei Tretyakov, the KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles.

According to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plotted Listyev's murder at the hands of Solntsevskaya bratva.

According to Stoltenberg he immediately broke off this relationship when he came to the knowledge that his contact was a KGB agent.

According to KGB sources, he had been a useful source for political information.

According to the FBI, Pitts received over $ 224, 000 in income from KGB and SVR sources.

According to the former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, after the Athens Colonel Coup in April 1967, Longo and other PCI leaders became alarmed at the possibility of a coup in Italy.

According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, General Aleksandr Sakharovsky from the First Chief Directorate of the KGB once said: " In today ’ s world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon.

According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed.

According to the VENONA files, on September 13, 1944, the KGB New York station sent a message to Moscow that Vladimir Pravdin, a NKVD ( the predecessor of the KGB ) officer working under cover as a correspondent for the Soviet news agency TASS, had been trying to contact a person by codename " BLIN " ( the Russian word for pancake ) in Washington, but that " BLIN " had been refusing to meet, citing a busy schedule.

According to former CPSU Politburo member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, the new party was a joint project of CPSU leadership and the KGB.

According to Johann Hari, " the FSB is simply the renamed KGB, whose raison d ' etre for decades was essentially institutional terror in the service of the government.

According to Associate Professor Henry E. Hale of Harvard University, one thing that remains unclear about the " FSB did it " theory: If the motive was to get an FSB-friendly man installed as president, why would the FSB have preferred Putin, a little-known " upstart " who had leapt to the post of FSB director through outside political channels, to Primakov, who was certainly senior in stature and pedigree and who was also widely reputed to have a KGB past?

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

According to defector Hwang Jang-yop, the North Korean government system became even more centralized and autocratic during the 1980s and 1990s under Kim Jong-il than it had been under his father.

According to GRU defector Kalanbe, " 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 ".

According to Peterson this defector described the American bombardment as very effective, " Kabul city has seen many rockets, but this was a different thing " and " the American bombing of Taliban trenches, cars, and troops caused us to be defeated.

According to the claims of one defector, forgeries are intermingled with real dollars in about a 1 to 1 ratio.

According to the " pentito " ( Mafia defector ) Tommaso Buscetta, Lima ’ s father, Vincenzo Lima, was a " man of honour " of the Palermo Centro Mafia family that was led by Salvatore and Angelo La Barbera of which Buscetta's family – the Porta Nuova Mafia family – was part as well.

According to KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, Jones provided intelligence to the Soviet Union in return for money.

According to the Schechter Letter, the Khazar ruler Joseph responded to the persecution of Jews by " doing away with many Christians " and Romanos retaliated by inciting Oleg of Novgorod ( called Helgu in the letter ) against Khazaria.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk ( probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo ) was the capital of the Slavic Krivich tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

According to East Slavic chronicles, Oleg was supreme ruler of the Rus ' from 882 to 912.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg was a relative ( likely brother-in-law ) of the first ruler, Rurik, and was entrusted by Rurik to take care of both his kingdom and his young son Ingvar, or Igor.

According to the chronicle, the Byzantines attempted to poison Oleg, but the Rus ' leader demonstrated his oracular powers by refusing to drink the cup of poisoned wine.

According to this legend, romanticised by Alexander Pushkin in his celebrated ballad " The Song of the Wise Oleg ," it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleg would take death from his stallion.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 912 and his successor, Igor of Kiev, ruled from then until his assassination in 945.

According to one chronicle, Yaropolk's brother Oleg killed Lyut, the son of Yaropolk's chief adviser and military commander Sveneld.

According to Oleg Grabar, the domes of the Islamic world, which rejected such imagery, continued the other traditions.

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko

According to Oleg Kalugin, " the Soviet intelligence was really unparalleled.

According to chronicles, prince Oleg who in the 9th century with his Rus Vikings had captured Constantinople, had nailed his shield to the cities gates, which had a large red Swastika painted on it.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg died in 913 and his successor, the prince Igor, ruled from then until his murder in 944.

According to Oleg Gordievsky ( the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect ) and Pavel Sudoplatov ( former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR ), Pontecorvo was also a Soviet agent.

According to the Primary Chronicle, the Severians, having paid tribute to the Khazars, along with the neighboring Polans, were conquered by Oleg of Novgorod, who incorporated their lands into the new principality of Kievan Rus '.

According to the historian Oleg Platonov, the assassination attempt was made on June 29 / July 12, 1914.

In 1961, Eugenia Sheppard announced in the New York Herald Tribune " According to Tobe's most recent coast to coast survey, the best known name in American fashion is Oleg Cassini.

According to Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky, when in late 1959 Fidel Castro's intelligence chief Ramiro Valdés contacted the KGB in Mexico City, the Soviets sent over one hundred mostly Spanish-speaking advisors, including Enrique Líster Forján, to organize the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Cuba.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Oleg of Novgorod ( Helgi of Holmgard ) conquered Kiev in 882.

According to a late chronicle, Oleg Yaroslavich was appointed by Duke Casimir II of Poland ( 1177 – 1194 ) to rule in Halych, but the Galicians poisoned him and invited Roman to be their prince.

* The Dynastic History of the Hellenistic Monarchies of Asia Minor According to Chronography of George Synkellos by Oleg L. Gabelko