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Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; December 11, 1939 – January 5, 1993; alias: Tomas David Schuman) was a Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency (APN). In 1970, as a member of the Soviet mission in New Delhi, India, Bezmenov defected to the West and was re-settled in Canada pursuant to an arrangement between US and Canadian security agencies.
Bezmenov is best remembered for his anti-Marxist, anti-Soviet lectures and books published in the 1980s.
Bezmenov was born in 1939 in Mytishchi, near Moscow, to Russian parents. Bezmenov stated that his father was a high ranking Soviet Army officer, later put in charge of inspecting Soviet troops in foreign countries, such as the Mongolian People's Republic and Cuba. Bezmenov's father died in the 1970s. When Bezmenov was seventeen, he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages. In addition to languages, he studied history, literature, and music, and became an expert on Indian culture. During his second year, Bezmenov sought to look like a person from India; his teachers encouraged this because graduates of the school were employed abroad as diplomats, journalists or spies.
Bezmenov later alleged that he was required as a Soviet student to take compulsory military training in which he was taught how to play "strategic war games" using the maps of foreign countries, as well as how to interrogate prisoners of war.
After graduating in 1963, Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economic aid group Soviet Refineries Constructions,[clarification needed] which built refinery complexes.[citation needed]
In 1965, Bezmenov was recalled to Moscow and began to work for Novosti Press Agency as an apprentice. Bezmenov later alleged that about three quarters of Novosti's staff were actually KGB officers, with the remainder being co-opted or KGB freelance writers and informers like himself. Bezmenov also stated that he edited and planted propaganda materials in foreign media, and delegations of Novosti's guests from foreign countries on tours of the Soviet Union or to international conferences held in the Soviet Union.
Bezmenov later alleged that after several months he was forced to act as an informer while maintaining his position as a Novosti journalist, and used his journalistic duties to help gather information and to spread disinformation to foreign countries for the purposes of Soviet propaganda and subversion.
Bezmenov was once again assigned to India in 1969, this time as a Soviet press-officer.[citation needed] He continued Novosti's propaganda efforts in New Delhi, working in the Soviet embassy.
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Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Безме́нов; December 11, 1939 – January 5, 1993; alias: Tomas David Schuman) was a Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency (APN). In 1970, as a member of the Soviet mission in New Delhi, India, Bezmenov defected to the West and was re-settled in Canada pursuant to an arrangement between US and Canadian security agencies.
Bezmenov is best remembered for his anti-Marxist, anti-Soviet lectures and books published in the 1980s.
Bezmenov was born in 1939 in Mytishchi, near Moscow, to Russian parents. Bezmenov stated that his father was a high ranking Soviet Army officer, later put in charge of inspecting Soviet troops in foreign countries, such as the Mongolian People's Republic and Cuba. Bezmenov's father died in the 1970s. When Bezmenov was seventeen, he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages. In addition to languages, he studied history, literature, and music, and became an expert on Indian culture. During his second year, Bezmenov sought to look like a person from India; his teachers encouraged this because graduates of the school were employed abroad as diplomats, journalists or spies.
Bezmenov later alleged that he was required as a Soviet student to take compulsory military training in which he was taught how to play "strategic war games" using the maps of foreign countries, as well as how to interrogate prisoners of war.
After graduating in 1963, Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economic aid group Soviet Refineries Constructions,[clarification needed] which built refinery complexes.[citation needed]
In 1965, Bezmenov was recalled to Moscow and began to work for Novosti Press Agency as an apprentice. Bezmenov later alleged that about three quarters of Novosti's staff were actually KGB officers, with the remainder being co-opted or KGB freelance writers and informers like himself. Bezmenov also stated that he edited and planted propaganda materials in foreign media, and delegations of Novosti's guests from foreign countries on tours of the Soviet Union or to international conferences held in the Soviet Union.
Bezmenov later alleged that after several months he was forced to act as an informer while maintaining his position as a Novosti journalist, and used his journalistic duties to help gather information and to spread disinformation to foreign countries for the purposes of Soviet propaganda and subversion.
Bezmenov was once again assigned to India in 1969, this time as a Soviet press-officer.[citation needed] He continued Novosti's propaganda efforts in New Delhi, working in the Soviet embassy.