Original sentence: A report by DTIC, describes the KGB as having received "initial funding assistance from the KGB".According to Vladimir Kuzichkin, a KGB officer based in Tehran between 1977 and 1982 before defecting to the MI6, the Soviet agency put officer Vladimir Fisenko in charge of direct communication with the MEK.According to historian Abbas Milani, MEK "adopted close ties with Moscow, and particularly with the KGB".Amir Taheri, Iranian author based in Europe, writes that "the MEK, with KGB help, engaged in a campaign against the Shah.Fred Halliday says the arrest and execution of Sa'adati collapsed the links between the two.Kuzichkin says the MEK asked them for arms.Sharam Chubin believes that Soviet choices for making "reliable basis for intervention" was not restricted to Tudeh party and that there were "sufficient evidence" to assume that an alliance between Soviet and Iranian Marxists including MEK was real.The Cult of Rajavi or Rajavi Cult.The MEK was also more remotely tied to the Soviet Union intelligence agency KGB, whose connections largely related to "weapons supply, techniques, electronic training, some funding and general support", according to the informed intelligence sources talking to The Washington Post.The organization tended to avoid contacts inside Iran, despite dedicating a safe house telephone line for "emergency meetings" and mainly maintained ties to the agency via European offices