Protestants spy, Russia's Federal Security Service Pskov branch chief charges

Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review ^ | Jan 8 | unknown

[AdmSmith]

In an interview with a local newspaper, Georgy Drachev, head of the Pskov Region’s FSB (heir to the KGB's domestic section), accused Protestants of being spies and "destructive" cults, and encouraged citizens to call the FSB with denunciations of their activities.

Drachev told the local newspaper Pskovskaya Pravda that foreign religious organizations often "approach families of military personnel, relatives of officials who work for intelligence agencies" and have access to state secrets. "Many of these so-called 'preachers' were trained in camps by Western intelligence agencies," Drachev claimed.

He presented an enemies list: "Religious organizations that are represented in the Pskov region (Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pentecostals, Baptists, Adventists, Methodists, and others) technically operate legally," he allowed. However, he then appealed to members of the public who come into contact with these "destructive" faiths, or whose relatives become their adherents and thereby lose contact with their families, become mentally ill or have their property taken from them, to "get in touch with law enforcement agencies."

[AdmSmith]

Xenophobia !

[AdmSmith]

for your ping list

[nuconvert]

calling all spies, pong

[ASOC]

LOL and nothing new. I wonder if the local Orthodox Patriarch was behind this this?

I was in Korea in 76/77 and the KCIA followed the Mormons around because they had been accused of 'spying' for the US CIA.

We would sit and the bus stop and watch the show, very funny.

[Tailgunner Joe]

In Russia, former KGB agents decide who is or isn't a christian.