Oleg Kalugin was during a time, head of KGB political operations in the United States and later a critic of the agency.
21 Facts About Oleg Kalugin
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Oleg Kalugin was then assigned to Washington, DC, with the cover of deputy press officer for the Soviet embassy.
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Oleg Kalugin then returned to KGB headquarters to become head of the foreign counterintelligence or K branch of the First Chief Directorate.
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In 1980, Oleg Kalugin was demoted to deputy head of the Leningrad KGB as a result of an intrigue initiated by Vladimir Kryuchkov, then a close confidant of Yuri Andropov who had been privately criticized by Oleg Kalugin.
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Oleg Kalugin was accused of recruiting an agent 20 years prior who was actually an American spy.
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That made Oleg Kalugin himself seem to be a security risk.
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Oleg Kalugin was suspected of working for the CIA, but there was no supporting evidence.
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Vladimir Kryuchkov, Chairman of the KGB and orchestrator of the 1991 coup plot, alleged that in his time in counterintelligence, Oleg Kalugin failed to discover a single US agent, but his successor would allegedly find over a dozen.
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Oleg Kalugin complained that the KGB overlooked corruption in the highest circles of Soviet society while it terrorized common people.
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Oleg Kalugin became a firm supporter of Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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Ever vocal, Oleg Kalugin told the press that in the future, the KGB should have no political functions and no secret laboratories to manufacture poisons and secret weapons.
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In 1995, Oleg Kalugin accepted a teaching position at The Catholic University of America and has remained in the United States ever since.
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Oleg Kalugin collaborated with former CIA Director William Colby and Activision to produce Spycraft: The Great Game, a CD-ROM game released in 1996.
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Oleg Kalugin has appeared frequently in the media and given lectures at a number of universities.
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In June 2001, Oleg Kalugin testified at the espionage trial of George Trofimoff, a retired Colonel of the United States Army Reserve who was charged with spying for the KGB in the 1970s and the 1980s.
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Oleg Kalugin further described having invited the Metropolitan to visit his dacha in 1978.
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On 4 August 2003, Oleg Kalugin became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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Oleg Kalugin was sentenced to fifteen years in jail, in a verdict he described as "Soviet justice, which is really triumphant today".
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Oleg Kalugin is a member of the advisory board for the International Spy Museum.
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Oleg Kalugin remains a critic of Putin, a former subordinate, whom he called a "war criminal" over his conduct of the Second Chechen War, and claimed that he would absolutely face an international tribunal some day and would be severely penalized for his crimes against the people of the North Caucasus, just like former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
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In 2018 Kalugin alleged that Donald J Trump could be a KGB-FSB asset since his 1987 visit to Moscow.