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The Honorable Malcolm Baldrige
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Our respective staffs have been
discussing a mechanism for distributing
the enclosed unclassified version of one
of our recent papers. Their proposal,
which I hope you will approve, is that
the paper be distributed by your General
Counsel to the major U.S. industrial
corporations, with CIA as the original
source of the information. We would,
of course, print it here and take care
of distribution to other U.S. Government
agencies. Please let me know if this
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Figure 1
Structure of USSR Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
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Figure 2
Exhibition Sections
USSR!
Chamber of Commerce
and Industry
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in the USSR
;Administration
V/O Ekspotsentr
Transports and forwards exhibition cargoes; assembles and
dismantles exhibits.
Provides information and advertising services; prepares
promotional material on international and foreign exhibits
held in the USSR.
? Designing and Arranging Department
Designs and arranges foreign exhibits; leases stands;
provides decoration for the stands; leases furniture and
equipment for stands and offices.
Arranges and holds international exhibitions in the USSR
and expositions at international congresses. Exhibits
involve several countries and themes.
Prepares and holds exhibits for a single country or for
individual companies on the same theme; supplies lists
of services and regulations.
? Foreign Relations Department
Assists exhibitors in getting entrance visas; registers them;
distributes exhibitors' certificates; handles protocol
arrangements.
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Figure 3
Hotel and Seminar Operations
USSR
Chamber of Commerce
Viand Industr9 . t.
Provides advertising and information
services and trade and economic
information; sells screen and audio time;
shoots advertising films; arranges press
conferences.
Organizes international conferences and
seminars; rents rooms; provides
transportation and meals.
Provides temporary personnel and
secretarial services; organizes
entertainment and excursions.
Runs four hotels and provides rooms for
business meetings.
Operates and repairs buildings and
property.
Renders mediation services; arranges
consultations, seminars, and business
meetings.
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Figure 4
Soyuzpatent Association
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Acquisition of patents and related protection documents for
Soviet inventions in Western Europe and Australia and for
inventions created in cooperation between Soviet and
and foreign organizations.
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Acquisition in the USSR of patents and certificates of
authorship for inventions created in socialist countries.
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Executes and sends abroad applications for patents and
related protection documents for Soviet inventions.
? Firm Tsepat
Acquisition of patents and related protection documents
for Soviet inventions in Eastern Europe.
Acquisition in the USSR of patents and certificates of
authorship for inventions created in Western Europe,
America, Asia, and Australia.
Acquisition of patents and related protection documents
for Soviet inventions in America and Asia.
? Firm Trediz
Acquisition of protection documents for Soviet
industrial designs and trademarks and similar services for
foreign designs and trademarks in the USSR.
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This paper was prepared by the Department of Commerce
for distribution to the US business community. It is
based on a classified study init 'ly done by the
Directorate of Intelligence of the Central
Intelligence Agency for US Government officials.
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Intelligence Collection in the USSR Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Key Judgments
The USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry plays an
important role in the Soviet effort to collect Western
economic information of value to Soviet industry. It
carries out that role while acting as a trade promoter
and facilitator with excellent access to Western
firms. Among other things, the chamber:
?Introduces Western firms to Soviet foreign trade and
industrial organizations.
?Provides foreign trade data to Soviet agencies.
?Carries out official trade functions, including
hosting exhibitions and facilitating patent work.
?Maintains representations in at least 14 countries.
Of the chamber's known staff of 140, about a third are
KGB officers. The chamber also maintains ties to the
GRU.
Some of the chamber's trade promotion activities
involve exploiting or misleading western business and
government leaders by:
?Systematically using international trade exhibitions
and seminars for economic collection.
'Falsifying end-user documentation during inspection
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of Western equipment coming into the USSR.
The chamber's collection priorities--if it has
any--are unknown. However, since at least the 1960s,
it has tried--often successfully--to collect
information on a wide range of Western technology,
including:
?Robot technology.
?Marine technology, including that dealing with
submarines doing deep-sea research.
?Industrial chemicals.
The chamber's contribution to the overall Soviet
effort to collect information on Western technology is
difficult to gauge. However, its trade promotion
activities--hosting over 200 trade exhibitions and
about 100 Western business delegations annually and
inspecting thousands of goods each year--give its
employees extraordinary access to imported equipment
and uncounted contacts with foreign companies,
particularly US or US-affiliated firms.
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Key Judgments
Setting the Scene
Collection Targets
Links to Soviet Intelligence
Inspection Methods
The Inspectors
Destination: Defense Industry
Trade Exhibition Tactics
Targeting Displayed Equipment
Collecting Technical Information
Reaping Seminar Benefits
Access to Commercial Data Bases
Acquiring Western Patent Information
Soyuzpatent Association
Foreign Patent Applications
Technical Literature
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Intelligence Collection in the USSR Chamber of
Commerce and Industry
Setting the Scene
The Soviet program to acquire militarily significant
Western technology is well documented. The effort
consists of two programs that use both legal and
illegal means. The first, managed by the
Military-Industrial Commission of the Presidium of the
USSR Council of Ministers, seeks one-of-a-kind
military and dual-use hardware and blueprints to
improve the technical levels of Soviet weapons and
military equipment. The second, run by the Ministry
of Foreign Trade and Soviet intelligence services,
diverts dual-use manufacturing and test equipment into
the production lines of weapons industries.
Along with the organizations that spearhead these
technology-transfer programs, other agencies aid the
process. This publication focuses on how one of the
most important of these agencies--the USSR Chamber of
Commerce and Industry--creates and uses opportunities
for legally acquiring information of value to Soviet
industry and, in doing so, misleads Westerners about
certain chamber activities.
The chamber collects economic information--in itself,
a legal activity. It does this while assisting major
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Soviet foreign trade actors in exhibiting goods,
hosting seminars, and translating commercial
documents. It easily gains access to such information
because it is a frequent contact for Western companies
doing business with the Soviets. For example, US
businessmen who need information or procedural
assistance on trade matters can contact the chamber's
representative at the New York office of the US-USSR
Trade and Economic Council. When Westerners arrive in
Moscow to sell their products, the chamber introduces
them to the appropriate Soviet foreign trade
organization or industrial customer. At various
stages in the commercial process, the chamber steps in
to encourage negotiations and help solve problems
between Soviet industrial clients and their potential
Western suppliers.
However, some of the chamber's functions involve
deception. In the USSR, it helps inspect Western
equipment, some sold legally to civilian industries
but destined from the first for defense-related
organizations.
Collection Targets
The chamber's collection priorities--if it has indeed
set any--are unknown. However, during the past two
decades it has often succeeded in collecting
information on a wide range of Western equipment. The
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following examples are typical:
?A Soviet in the Franco-Soviet Chamber of Commerce
tried in 1983 to collect technical data on Western
marine technology, including computer software
packages and information on deep-sea research
submarines.
?A chamber official in West Germany attempted during
the late 1960s to obtain data on secret chemical-
processing procedures.
?The chamber sponsors trade fairs to which it
routinely invites Western manufacturers whose
products fit Soviet industrial needs. Invitations
have been extended to, among others, a Japanese
industrial robot association and a Western producer
of calibration equipment for precision electronics.
?At Expo-70 in Tokyo, chamber personnel solicited from
a Japanese trading firm reports containing data
extracted from a technical paper, information on
Western applications for patents, and information on
Mitsubishi's technical research funds.
?The chamber routinely requests several copies of
technical publications provided for seminars given by
Western businessmen. In one case, the chamber
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seminar coordinator asked a Western electronics
manufacturer to send him all construction,
manufacturing, and design standards relating to the
product and its specific industrial applications.
Links to Soviet Intelligence
The exact number of chamber employees is unknown. Of
the approximately 140 officials who have been
identified, about a third are known or suspected
intelligence officers, of whom a few are GRU (military
intelligence) and the rest KGB. Analysis of the
career patterns and activities of the remaining
officials suggests that the actual number of KGB and
GRU officers is higher.
KGB use of chamber cover appears to be quite broad:
?KGB staff officers fill about half of the senior
management slots in the chamber's Moscow apparatus and
thus are in a position to have considerable policy-
making authority. In most other Soviet administra-
tive units, intelligence officers hold lower level
positions and concentrate mainly on intelligence
,operations.
?Some of these senior managers have had extensive
experience in clandestine operations.
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?KGB officers are found in almost every chamber
component; in most government agencies, they tend to
congregate in only one or two components that deal
with foreigners (like foreign trade organizations and
foreign relations or protocol departments).
The chamber conducts intelligence operations both at
home and overseas. Overseas, it maintains
representations in several countries. A
representation may be part of a Soviet trade
delegation to a country or a separate, bilateral
chamber, such as the Italian-Soviet Chamber of
Commerce in Milan, the Franco-Soviet Chamber in Paris,
or the British-Soviet Chamber in London. In the
United States, the chamber is represented on the
US-USSR Trade and Economic Council in New York.
Judging by their activities, it appears that the KGB
fills the top slots in these overseas organizations.
They conduct regular chamber work to gain credibility,
establish business contacts, and lay the foundation
for future collection. Firms whose products are of
technological interest to the USSR are contacted for
information on manufacturing processes and technical
specifications. Soviet foreign trade representatives
may then follow up on these leads with offers to
develop a market for the company's goods in the Soviet
Union or simply with offers of cash.
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B Inspection Methods
G The Inspectors. When the USSR purchases something
from a foreign source, the product must be inspected
to ensure that it meets specifications agreed upon at
the time of sale. This is done by quality control
inspectors (also called acceptance engineers)', some
of whom serve in the Goods Inspection Administration
of the Chamber. Among their legitimate
responsibilities are preparing invoices and other
documents that accompany goods, witnessing
certificates of origin, and conducting laboratory
tests.
The position of quality control inspector provides an
excellent cover for Soviet intelligence officers
trained in S&T collection methods. These inspectors
go abroad frequently; they can be assigned to a
Western factory for several weeks or for months. Most
will be able to return for several tours if the host
country has no objection. Acceptance engineers are
not normally subject to travel restrictions and
surveillance imposed on diplomatic personnel and thus
are able to gather technical information more easily
than can embassy or consulate officials. Observers of
Soviet commercial personnel abroad note that
acceptance engineers sometimes wander into off-limits
areas on the pretext of inspecting equipment or
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looking at equipment test results. Acceptance
engineers routinely initiate contact with firms other
than the one to which they are assigned in order to
obtain technical details on equipment that the USSR is
supposedly interested in purchasing. They may also
target Western engineers and scientists for
recruitment as agents to pass along technical
information or trade secrets.
C Destination--Defense Industry. The Goods Inspection
Administration helps funnel foreign goods acquired by
the USSR into defense or other classified facilities.
It does this in a variety of ways. For example:
?Its personnel can conceal the identities of Soviet
military or defense end-users from Westerners who
have legally sold equipment to what they thought were
nonstrategic facilities. They can accomplish this by
preparing false certification documents during
quality control inspections.
'It inspects and forwards imported items that have
arrived in the USSR. There is reason to believe that
half or more of the imported equipment inspected by
the Moscow branch of the chamber ended up in defense-
related facilities. According to the Soviet press,
as of 1982 the chamber had conducted over 1.6 million
inspections of imported goods, and the volume of
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services had risen by 250 percent since 1969. These
figures suggest that much equipment that is not
export controlled is nevertheless of value to
defense-related organizations.
Trade Exhibition Tactics
One of the Chamber's two foreign trade organizations,
V/0 Ekspotsentr, organizes international trade fairs
and exhibitions. Ekspotsentr annually handles more
than 200 exhibitions in the USSR and about 25 Soviet
expositions abroad. It establishes special
booths--called commercial centers--for Soviet foreign
trade and scientific specialists to use as a home base
while they assess advanced technology exhibited at the
fairs. In 1983 a senior expert with the Main
Engineering and Technical Administration (GITU), a
component of the Foreign Trade Ministry, was named
director of an international exhibition center in the
chamber. The presence in the chamber of this
official, as well as of other GITU officials,
indicates close coordination between the two
organizations in facilitating the assimilation of
foreign equipment.
C Targeting Displayed Equipment. The chamber clearly
views exhibitions as opportunities to gather
industrial intelligence. It has been successful in
gaining the participation of Western countries, even
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those that belong to the Coordinating Committee
(COCOM), and in persuading them to exhibit sensitive
electronic, instrument-making, engineering, and other
equipment. Once the targeted companies bring their
equipment to the USSR for exhibition, Soviet
officials--probably including chamber exhibition
representatives--pressure them to sell it. A former
Soviet military attache has reported that Western
businessmen have often been drawn into negotiations on
the sale of sensitive equipment.
C. Collecting Technical Information. At exhibitions
chamber officials collect any industrial information
they can. Several sources have noted the enthusiasm
with which they gather up unclassified handouts on
equipment manufactured in the West. Western visitors
to exhibitions in the USSR believe KGB officers have
entered locked display rooms at night to copy design
information from equipment, but this charge cannot be
independently confirmed.
gj Reaping Seminar Benefits
The other chamber foreign trade organization involved
in industrial collection efforts is V/O Sovintsentr,
which runs the International Trade Center in Moscow as
well as various hotels and office buildings in the
city. Each year Sovintsentr's hotels accommodate
thousands of guests--including US Government
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officials--from Western industrialized countries.
Sovintsentr also sponsors seminars in Moscow for
foreign businessmen who wish to brief Soviet officials
on their products. In 1983 alone, it organized about
150 seminars at the Trade Center. Seminar sponsorship
constitutes Sovintsentr's largest and one of its most
successful information collection efforts.
At these professional gatherings, Sovintsentr
officials attempt to collect technical intelligence
and to monitor the activities of foreign business
representatives. They display literature that
suggests that businessmen who are losing trade because
of government restrictions on selling high-technology
items to the Soviet Union should lobby against such
sanctions. The chamber informs businessmen before the
seminar that they are not permitted to keep Soviet
calling cards, and it attempts to confiscate all cards
they may already have collected.
b Access to Commercial Data Bases
The chamber has a computer center, which contains a
new automated storage and retrieval system operated by
Sovintsentr. The center provides information to the
chamber's members on world market prices,
international trade and finance, patent and invention
specifications, and stock exchanges. It includes a
library, a microfilm storage area, and an S&T data
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bank. The center uses IBM 370/148 and PDP 11/70
computers, which the United States exported legally to
the USSR in 1978.
The computer center is part of Akademset, a
data-transmitting network for Soviet scientific
institutes. The institute appears to control other
network members' access to the data bases. It is
reasonable to assume that Sovintsentr's computer
center supplements its economic collection activities
by tapping into Western online information services
through VNIIPAS. VNIIPAS currently has access to
unclassified military-related data.
J Acquiring Western Patent Information
C Soyuzpatent Association. In July 1985 the chamber
reorganized and upgraded its Patenting of Inventions
Administration and renamed it Soyuzpatent. Like its
predecessor, Soyuzpatent is the sole patent attorney
in the USSR; it acts by proxy for foreign citizens
wishing to patent their inventions and trademarks in
the USSR, and it registers Soviet patents abroad.'
The association maintains a patent translation
service, provides patent file searches, briefs
foreigners on Soviet patent laws, and produces
reference publications in foreign languages.
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Foreign Patent Applications. When foreigners apply
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for patents in the USSR, a process begins by which the
chamber is alerted to the existence of foreign
technical information that may be of interest to
defense or science sectors. It asks inventors to send
as much proprietary information as possible to the
Soviet organization that conducts the patent
examination. Such information can include technical
drawings, design details, or formulas. Research shows
that the chamber also conducts patent searches for
Soviet industry and provides lists of Western
companies involved in specific applied technology. If
an invention is deemed useful, the Soviets may then
decide to license it or buy the patent--an entirely
legal procedure.
Such patent and licensing decisions are made by V/O
Litsenzintorg, a unit of the Ministry of Foreign
Trade. The chamber--along with industrial ministries
and other economic organizations--is represented on
the Litsenzintorg governing board. Board member M. L.
Gorodisskiy, the current chief of Soyuzpatent, is a
KGB officer and former member of the Foreign Trade
Ministry's GITU. He undoubtedly has considerable
experience in identifying Western patents of
particular benefit to Soviet defense and civilian
industry.
Technical Literature
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Several Soviet agencies, including the chamber,
collect and exploit open-source material on Western
state-of-the-art technology. A growing number of
information clearinghouses translate foreign
publications and disseminate them to Soviet research
enterprises for review. Soviet press articles report
that the chamber maintains a large translation
service. About 6,500 translators skilled in
scientific and patent terminology produce about
180,000 pages annually for chamber members. The
chamber also has a component that publishes summaries
of foreign-language documents on economic, scientific,
and technical affairs as well as a periodic bulletin.
The component also disseminates books and reference
aids to chamber members.
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According to its charter, the chamber is a public
agency. However, it works closely with--and is
probably secretly subordinate to--the Ministry of
Foreign Trade:
?The chamber's predecessor organizations operated
openly under the People's Commissariat for (now the
Ministry of) Foreign Trade.
?Many chamber employees originally worked in the
Ministry and graduated from its Academy of Foreign
Trade.
?Some chamber officials use the services of the
Ministry's personnel administration when traveling
abroad, and their visas state that they are
Ministry--not chamber--employees.
The chamber probably disavows its official government
connection in order to conform to the organizational
structures of Western chambers of commerce, which
operate independently of their governments. Like many
Western corporations, the chamber has a headquarters
office and subsidiary associations, which are divided
into firms and departments. The chamber even has its
own version of shareholders: in return for a
membership fee, about 4,500 Soviet industrial
enterprises, scientific research institutes, public
health and cultural organizations, construction and
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organizations can draw upon chamber services.
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KGB Lt. Gen. (Res.) Yevgeniy Petrovich Pitovranov has
been an officer in the chamber since 1966. He is on
the Executive Committee (governing board) of the
US-USSR Trade and Economic Council.
Pitovranov has studied at the Moscow Electromechanical
Institute for Railway Transport Engineers. He joined
the Communist Party (CPSU) in 1938. From the late
1930s until 1951 he served in the People's
Commissariat of Internal Affairs and successive
intelligence organizations. In 1951 Pitovranov began
an 18-month imprisonment during then General Secretary
Iosif Stalin's purge of intelligence officers who had
associated with secret police chief Lavrentiy Beriya.
After the post-Stalin regime released him, Pitovranov
served as Deputy High Commissioner in Berlin
(1953-54), KGB resident in the Embassies in Berlin
(1955-58) and Beijing (1959-61), and head of the KGB
Training School (1962-64). He then attended the CPSU
Higher Party School; upon graduation, he joined the
chamber as a deputy chairman. He was promoted to
first deputy chairman in 1972. His responsibilities
in his first two chamber posts included supervising
international exhibitions and registering patents and
trademarks.
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Pitovranov, 71, speaks German. He is not believed to
speak English. He and his wife, Yelizaveta
Vasil'yevna, have three grown children.
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Gennadiy Fedorovich Solntsev
Chief, Fenno-Soviet Chamber of Commerce, Helsinki
(since 1984)
Age 65...affiliated with the KGB...1949 graduate of
Institute of Foreign Trade... first secretary in
Embassy economic section in Austria
1956-60...commercial attache, Soviet trade mission,
Canada, 1967-71...joined chamber in about 1976 as
deputy chief of Foreign Exhibitions
Department-deputy general director of V/O
Ekspotsentr during 1977 and 1981-84...worked in United
States as deputy chairman of Kama River Purchasing
Commission 1978-81...low key, polite,
knowledgeable. . .described as effective with US
businessmen... in late 1970s tried to coax US diplomat
in Moscow into sending him technical literature from a
seminar... speaks good English.
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Inspection Officials
Yuriy Maksimovich Levin
Chamber Inspector, Nissho-Iwai, Japan.
Age 47...serving for fifth time in same post with this
firm (previous tours have been less than a
year) ... known KGB affiliation... uses State Committee
for Science and Technology credentials... has often
contacted Japanese manufacturers to request technical
details on equipment Soviets purportedly interested in
buying... has played on manufacturers' eagerness to
make sales to obtain technical specifications and
procedures.
Vladimir Ivanovich Gornostayev
Chief, Goods Inspection Administration
(since about 1968)
Age 73...possibly involved in GRU illegals
operations... director of Soviet industrial and trade
exhibitions in Australia 1961 and in Turkey
1963-65...described as reserved, rather unsocial,
difficult to influence, and ambitious but not
conniving.
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Doctoring the Documents
When a Western firm producing goods for a civilian
industry in the USSR requests a quality control
inspection, the chamber usually prepares a declaration
of inspection for the equipment. That document
includes the name of the inspector, the name of the
Soviet organization that is the customer, and the
names of two customer representatives. In cases in
which the Soviets wish to hide the true identity of
the Soviet user, officials may doctor the document so
that the foreign supplier may never suspect that he
has sold his product to a closed facility probably
involved in military production.
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Exhibitions Officials
Marlen Khorenovich Akopov
Chief, Soviet Exhibits Abroad
Administration (since about 1976)
Age 46...suspected KGB affiliation... served in Embassy
in Nepal as interpreter during 1961-62...joined
Chamber as translator in about 1971...worked in
Exhibitions Abroad and Foreign Relations
Administrations ... representative to Board of
International Expositions in Paris since 1966...has
often traveled to United States for negotiations on
exhibitions and 1982 World's Fair... friendly,
gregarious, and able to draw people out... cultivates
relationships with US officials who have high-level
political contacts... described as shrewd and
tough... speaks excellent English.
Konstantin Fedorovich Afanas'yev
Deputy General Director, V/O Ekspotsentr
(since at least 1981);
Director, firm Inovystavka, Ekspotsentr
(since at least 1983)
Age 66...KGB colonel... probably responsible for S&T
matters... served in trade mission in Cologne as staff
employee during 1957-60...was refused visa for second
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tour in 1962 because of prior activities and
contacts... during 1964-68 was first secretary at trade
mission in Vienna... joined chamber in about 1969 as
deputy director of specialized foreign
exhibits... speaks fluent German; good French and
English.
Khachik Gevorkovich Oganesyan
Former Deputy General Director, V/O Ekspotsentr
(1978-84)
Age 72...retired in 1984... supervised all Soviet
agents in Tehran during 1946-50 as second secretary
and consul... assigned to Vienna as chief of an
illegals section of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
1950-53...deputy chief, MVD Counterintelligence
Section, East Berlin, 1954-59; there he ran illegals
and handled sabotage operations and for most of the
time was attached as adviser to East German Ministry
of State Security... first identified in chamber in
1969 as deputy chief of Foreign and International
Exhibitions Department... advised US companies on types
of equipment chamber wanted them to
display... described as cordial and helpful on
exhibition administrative details.
Ivan Luk'yanovich Rozhkov
Director, Firm Informreklama, V/O Ekspotsentr (since
oJ
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about 1983)
Age 67...suspected GRU officer...was field army radio
operator and then captain in engineer corps during
World War II.. .foreign trade representative in Italy
1964-67...first secretary in Bolivia from 1970 until
he was declared persona non grata in 1972.
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V/O Sovintsentr Officials
Aleksandr Fedorovich Khlystov
Deputy General Director, V/O Sovintsentr (since at
least 1980)
Age 53. . .administrator of International Trade
Center... probably KGB colonel... translator at New York
World's Fair in 1959...foreign trade employee in
London 1961-65...adviser and counselor at Soviet
pavillion at Expo-70 in Tokyo ... deputy division chief
in Chamber in 1974...drinks heavily.
Gennadiy Nikolayevich Tapeshko
Director, Firm Interkongress, V/O Sovintsentr (since
April 1985)
Age 46...suspected KGB officer... employee
(nondiplomatic), Office of Commercial Counselor,
Embassy, Colombo, 1963-64...became Inturist
representative in Trade Mission, New Delhi,
1968...while driving an automobile in 1972, killed
Indian bicyclist; lacked diplomatic immunity and left
India abruptly... joined Chamber in about 1976,
probably as chief of protocol in V/O
Ekspotsentr...served in Soviet-Belgian Chamber of
Commerce, Brussels, from about 1977 until
1981...became deputy director, Firm Interkongress, in
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Patenting and Publications Officials
Mikhail L'vovich Gorodisskiy
Chief, Patenting of Inventions Administration--now
Soyuzpatent (since at least 1969)
Age 59...has had extensive contact with Americans
through international organizations dealing in trade
and patents. . .has degree in international law from
Institute of Foreign Trade... senior legal adviser in
foreign trade organization V/O Mashinoimport
1957-63...official in Main Engineering and Technical
Administration of Foreign Trade Ministry from 1963
until about 1965, when he joined chamber... described
as shrewd, amiable, and talkative... speaks English.
Svyatoslav Viktorovich Filippov
Deputy Chief, Patenting of Inventions
Administration--now Soyuzpatent (since at least 1981)
Age 58...KGB staff officer... doctor of juridical
sciences and specialist on US legal system... served in
Office of Legal Affairs of UN Secretariat in New York
1965-69...analyst in Institute of the USA and Canada
and consultant to USSR Supreme Soviet in late
1970s...described as good observer and judge of
personalities.. .has good feel for arguments that will
counter US positions...gives impression he is
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wheeler-dealer... visits high-level US Government and
business officials during frequent trips to United
States to study and to attend conferences... speaks
English.
Sergey Paviovich Lyubimov
Chief, Information and Publication Administration
(since at least 1978)
Age 67...KGB agent or staff officer dealing with
S&T...graduated from Tula Mechanical Institute in 1941
and Academy of Foreign Trade in 1952...worked in
Ministry of Foreign Trade in early 1950s...probably
joined chamber in about 1957...served in United States
during 1963-66 as correspondent for TASS, where he
concentrated on obtaining technical information on
behalf of KGB residency in New York... identified as
chief of chamber's Foreign Relations Department in
1966...commercial counselor in Ethiopia from 1972
until about 1976...speaks English and German.
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'Acceptance engineers can be found in other Soviet
organizations, such as the State Committee for Science
and Technology and industrial enterprises that have
economic dealings with the West. All quality control
inspectors operate in the same way.
2The Scientific Research Institute of Patent
Expertise of the State Committee for Inventions and
Discoveries conducts the actual patent examination on
the basis of applications submitted by the chamber.
As of 1981, the chamber had filed-about 2,600 patent
applications from companies representing 41 countries
and had issued over 18,000 patents and certificates of
invention to those countries.
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