Traitor Poles Biography

Why did the Soviet intelligence officer betray the USSR? What pushed Polyakova to treason, and who was the first to go on the mole? Unknown facts and new versions of the most loud history of betrayal in the documentary investigation of the Moscow Trust TV channel. The traitor in the general uniforms of a retired general is arrested by Alfa fighters, one of the best power units in the world.

The detention occurs according to all the rules of the special services. There is little handcuffs on the spy, it must be completely immobilized. He was right there, things were already prepared in advance to remove everything that he had: a suit, a shirt, and so on, ”says Oleg Chlobustov. Dmitry Polyakov but is there a lot of noise to detain a summer old man? They didn’t count the traitor in the USSR in the KGB.

Material damage caused by Polyakov is calculated by billions. None of the traitors reached such heights in the GRU, and no one worked for so long. I don’t know this figure with what to compare it, ”says the historian of the special services Nikolai Dolgopolov. Polyakov understands that he is facing such crimes. However, being arrested, he does not panic, and actively cooperates with the investigation.

Probably the traitor expects that he will keep his life for a double game with the CIA. But the scouts will be decided differently. It will be a signal “I am caught by the guys, I do not believe it,” says the Military Viktor Baranets Metamorphosis, in a person who, in general, began fate as a hero, and we could say it was tiled by fate, ”Oleg Chlobustov argues. In the office of the US colonel, Feihi calls the phone.

A person on the other end of the wire is noticeably nervous. He demands a meeting with the head of the American mission at the UN Military Control Committee and names his name: Colonel Dmitry Polyakov, a military attache at the Soviet embassy. That same evening, Feihi calls to the FBI. Instead of the military, feds will come to a meeting with Polyakov, and this will completely suit him.

That this is a provocation, that it is crazy, that it is a crook who wants to launch, as they say, a paper mill, and this person is carefully checked for a long time, ”explains the historian of the special services Alexander Bondarenko. At first, the FBROVS does not believe in Polyakov, they suspect an agent of the two of them. But an experienced scout knows how to convince them.

At the first meeting, he gives out the names of the encryptions. Those working in the Soviet embassy, ​​through which all the secrets pass, he will call these names or he will bluff the true surnames, everything coincided, everything came together, ”says the KGB counterintelligence. After the issuance of encryptions, there are no more doubts. FBI agents understand, in front of them is an “initiative”.

So in intelligence they call people who voluntarily go to cooperation.

Polyakov receives the pseudonym Top Hat, that is, "cylinder". Later, the federals will transfer it to their colleagues to the CIA. The Americans understood this because he gave out the most valuable thing in military intelligence and foreign intelligence service. The Americans then understood: yes, to give out the encryptions - there is no road back, ”Nikolai Dolgopolov explains.

Having crossed the line, Poles feels a pleasant chill from the danger, from the fact that he was walking on the tip of the knife. He studied the work of Polyakov, and such a motive seems quite convincing to him. He risked most of all when he dragged the chestnuts from the fire for central reconnaissance. There was a risk, then adrenaline, then this drive, you see, what is called now, ”says Atamanenko.

Indeed, in New York, Polyakov works under the guise of the Soviet embassy. Nothing threatens him, unlike the illegal immigrants that he oversees, and which in case of failure will lose everything. But does Polyakov really lack risk, because in case of danger, he is obliged to cover his employees, if necessary, at the cost of his own life. Photo: ITAR -TASS "this happened when they save agents when they save illegal employees, so there is any risk in intelligence, and assume that he had bureaucratic work when he had to work with scouts, in intelligence - this no longer withstand critics," says Alexander Bondarenko.

Poles come exactly the opposite. He passes the FBI unknown to him illegal immigrants. So maybe here it is - a motive for revenge? American counterintelligence offers to continue his work in the USSR and he agrees. But panic covers him at home, he shudders from every sound, considers it to confess everything.However, in the FBI, it is as if his thoughts are being read. If he hopes for forgiveness, he is informed that Macei's agent has committed suicide.

Polyakov handed her back before leaving, as a farewell gift. The traitor understands: he went too far, and there is no way back. Polyakov returns to Moscow with espionage equipment and a whole suitcase of expensive gifts. Going into the offices of the bosses, he generously gives out gold hours, cameras, pearl jewelry. Realizing that he was beyond suspicion, he again got in touch with the CIA.

Passing by the US Embassy, ​​he sends encoded information using a tiny transmitter. In addition, Polyakov is satisfied with caches in which he leaves microplays with those who have been reached on them, secret documents. Gorky Culture Park - one of the hiding places, called Art, was here. Crouching allegedly to relax, the spy with an inconspicuous movement hid a container behind the bench, disguised as a brick.

The conditional signal that the container was taken should be a strip of lipstick on the board of ads near the Arbat restaurant, but it is not. Polyakova covers horror. And only after a few days, looking at the New York Times, he sees an ad in a column of private individuals. The encrypted message indicates the following: "A letter from art is received." The spy exhales with relief.

And yet, in the name of what all this risk, all these efforts? Khrushchev is to blame for everything in the fact that Polyakov was an ardent “Stalinist”, and after the famous persecution of Stalin began, when Khrushchev, who had his hands, not like an elbow, but on the shoulders in the blood after Ukrainian executions, he decided to wash himself in the image of Stalin, you know, and this became supposedly such a powerful psychological blow, according to Polyakov’s political worldviews, ” - says Viktor Baranets.

This is the development of missile weapons, it is a transition, a refusal, as it were, from surface ships and the transition, supports on submarines armed with nuclear weapons. And now a certain bluff of Khrushchev began, in the sense that the Soviet Union has a very powerful nuclear potential, ”says Natalia Egorova. Nikita Khrushchev on the rostrum, year.

The insane performances of Nikita Sergeyevich are added to the fire in the UN, in October, during which he allegedly knocks on the table with one of the speakers. Natalia Egorova leads the Center for the Study of the Cold War at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Having studied the facts about Khrushchev’s performance, she came to the conclusion - there was no boot on the table, but there was an international scandal, and at the same time not small.

Plus, Khrushchev also shouted all kinds of words of indignation, ”says Natalia Egorova. According to some reports, during this speech, Poles stands behind Khrushchev. At that time he works at the UN Military Control Committee. The world is on the verge of the Third World War, and all because of the High-General Secretary General. Maybe the future spy penetrated Khrushchev with contempt.

But Nikita. Sergeyevich will not be resigned by Sergey, and the activity of the Clot of Crimea will not stop there, but that if the Poles hats not so much to Khrushchev as the whole Soviet ideology. The revolution violated everything, he had a genetic hostility towards the existing system. I think that he worked on an ideological basis, ”says Porosovka. But even if, it is unlikely to explain the betrayal.

Alexander Bondarenko is a writer and historian of the special services, a winner of the foreign intelligence service prize. He studied various motives of betrayal and says with confidence that ideology has nothing to do with it. Peter Ivashutin, he fought against specific persons. Enough, nevertheless, a prepared, educated person who understands that the system, by and large, is not cold, not hot.

He handed over specific people, ”says Bondarenko. Continuing to spy for the CIA, Poles are trying to ensure that he is again sent abroad. It will be easier to work there.