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COLD WAR 28/87
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Transcript of interview with KGB officer and dissident Victor Orekhov, 1997
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- 1997 Jun (Creation)
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26pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Victor Orekhov, KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, 1971-1978, and political prisoner, (1978-1986), relating to his work in the KGB Fifth Service, responsible for responding to Soviet dissident and refuseniks, including surveillance techniques, and the use of psychiatric punishment; his disillusionment with the treatment of dissidents following the Helsinki Final Act, 1975, and protest against Soviet abuses of human rights; assisting dissidents; his arrest and imprisonment, 1978. 26pp
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