Cardinal Primakov - Power factions in Russia. Part 7

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Most of us know Primakov from the Yeltsin era.

At some point, Primakov and Yeltsin's family had a conflict, and he began to dig under the ruling Clan with the help of his Prosecutor General, Skuratov.

He began an investigation against Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko about receiving kickbacks from the theft of budgetary funds - the case of the company "Mabetex"). He began investigations against oligarchs close to Dyachenko: Berezovsky (the Aeroflot case) and Abramovich (the case of the illegal privatization of Sibneft). Skuratov also initiated a number of high-profile cases of corruption in St. Petersburg: the case of "Russian Video", the case of Sobchak (receiving bribes by apartments), the case of the 20th trust on the theft of budget money in the St. Petersburg mayor's office in the 90s. Moreover, the defendant in the last criminal case was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

All this could not please the Yeltsin clan, and the prosecutor in the spring of 1999 was stopped by the then director of the FSB, for which he earned the incredible gratitude of the Family, as the Yeltsin clan was then called. Well, who was the director of the FSB in 1999, try to guess for yourself. Thus, Primakov was one of the key figures in the deal to transfer power from Yeltsin to Putin. But he was much more interested in another idea - to find the party's money, which had been withdrawn in the late 1980s through the 5th KGB Directorate. In fact, this operation to withdraw the Gold of the Party was carried out by his immediate superiors, which we will talk about a little later. In the meantime, a little about how the Foreign Intelligence Service of Primakov's times and the underworld were connected.

Look at this person:

This is Shabtai KalmanOvich, a KGB agent and treasurer of Yaponchik and the Solntsevo organized criminal group, while he was Primakov's trusted person. It was Primus, as he was called in narrow circles, who helped pull Shabtai out of an Israeli prison, where he was imprisoned for espionage for the USSR. Shabtai came out in 1993, joined the Solntsevo organized criminal group, was a major authority there. He was killed in a showdown in 2009. His friend, Semyon Mogilevich, was drawn at his funeral. During Primakov's tenure at the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Mogilevich created a giant "international branch" in the Solntsevo organized criminal group, which the FBI named S. M. O. - Semyon Mogilevich Organization. Mogilevich has earned the title of "boss of bosses" of the Russian mafia abroad from the FBI. All over the world, they traded in weapons, drugs, contraband alcohol - in general, the full range of criminal activities. In order to understand how it happened that the External Intelligence Service oversaw such large organized crime groups, it is worth looking into the rather distant past.

Since 1962, Yevgeny Primakov served as a columnist for the Pravda newspaper, an organ of the CPSU Central Committee, but on April 30, 1970, he left Pravda and became deputy director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations - IMEMO - the institution of the most influential in the Union in the field of social sciences. As you can see, now there is a bust of Primakov at the institute, and in the distant 70th year, the appointment was unexpected for most of the employees, because the newly-minted deputy of science was engaged in passing.

This miracle was easily explained. Alexander Yakovlev, Georgy Arbatov and Director of IMEMO Inozemtsev fell in love with the candidacy of "young and promising". This troika, which controlled the key social and scientific centers of the USSR and had access to the bodies of the Soviet leaders, was looking for an energetic and competent executor of their far-reaching plans. Inozemtsev himself often left IMEMO to write reports for the elderly general secretary. At such moments, Primakov fully assumed the management of the institute. Under the leadership of Inozemtsev and Primakov, IMEMO more and more moved away from its main activity - the search for optimal solutions to foreign policy problems - and turned into a hidden opposition. This was expressed in the general spread of pro-American views in the institute. By and large, at some stage, the institute replaced real activity with non-constructive criticism of the Soviet order, offering nothing in return. In 1982, KGB officers detained two students, who were found to have a heap of anti-Soviet literature. During the investigation, the detainees said that the IMEMO was simply stuffed with similar sheets of overseas origin, and many, including the management of the institution, are actively involved in the dissemination and propaganda of pro-American views. While promoting the case, the Chekists gradually came to the conclusion that anti-Soviet propaganda was being actively pursued in the depths of IMEMO and similar elite educational institutions. In the midst of the investigation, director Inozemtsev died of a heart attack, and the new director, who was Primakov, who was promoted there by the same Yakovlev and Arbatov, should have taken the whole blow. Should have, but did not accept.