Fooling the West: Top-secret Work of the KGB Manipulating Protestants of the USSR Regarding Religions Outside the USSR, 1954-1957
Journal: Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Year: 2023

The article presents the issue of the use of the Protestant clergy by the Soviet special services in matters of intelligence and counterintelligence work abroad and among the Baptist World Alliance delegations that visited the USSR in the 1950s. The article contains the names of KGB agents and their secret pseudonyms and describes for the first time the specific areas of their intelligence work, which they conducted under religious cover in the interests of the KGB, the Soviet regime abroad, and