KGB TRAINING MANUAL ON OPERATIONS AGAINST AMERICANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00435R000100020006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 27, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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27 February 1968
MEMORANDUM LOR: Assistant Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT: KGB Training Manual on Operations
against Americans
1. Attached herewith are three copies of a training
manual used by the KGB to instruct its staff officers in
how to recruit Americans as espionage agents. It is sug-
gested that it would be appropriate for you to pass this 25X6D
document to as a follow-up to previously
expressed. concern about KGB operations against
personnel abroad. The document is being given broad dis-
semination within the U. S. intelligence community, but
there is no procedure for including In 25X6D
such routine -dissemination. 25X1A8a
2. This KGB document is entitled "The Recruitment of
Americans in the United States and Abroad." It describes
KGB goals, targets, operational doctrine and special problems
encountered in working against Americans. The chapter on
operations against Americans abroad, starting on page 25,
has particular significance for the Peace Corps as it dis-
cusses a KGB directive calling for intensified recruitment
operations on a world-wide basis against various categories
of Americans residing or works g abroad. It does not spe-
cifically name as targets, but we 25X6D
believe this is because the document was written in 1962; if
it were being written today, NEWWertainlY 25X6D
be included. Our observation of Soviet intelligence activities
abroad confirms that KGB operational doctrine as described
in this document is being implemented in practice. Spe-
cifically, there has indeed been a substantial increase in
recent years in KGB operations against American Embassies
and other U. S. installations abroad.
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