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[00:00:00] logistics, which the upcoming war, he ultimately affects
[00:00:03] the final cost of energy resources. The street
[00:00:06] battles that unfolded on the territory of European states began
[00:00:10] with the demands of French students to increase
[00:00:13] the funding of educational institutions. The other thing is that
[00:00:16] yes, these protests, so to speak, then escalated into completely
[00:00:20] unconventional methods, yes, that is, pogroms,
[00:00:24] looting and so on. A quite logical
[00:00:27] consequence of the policy that European. young
[00:00:36] Europeans about increasing funding for the educational
[00:00:39] sphere, both in France and in other EU countries,
[00:00:43] points were added about improving the quality of life,
[00:00:46] the basis of which were cheap energy resources from Russia,
[00:00:50] when society understands that it has started to live much worse, then they will rather
[00:00:54] try to change power by changing power
[00:00:57] try to change the course, and the course can be changed only in one way:
[00:01:01] return to the bosom of friendship with Russia. And the only
[00:01:04] option for European elites to curb the wave of protests
[00:01:08] is dialogue with Russia an agreement on the supply of
[00:01:11] energy resources to the EU. But the conditions under which
[00:01:15] Moscow will agree to help will differ significantly
[00:01:18] from previous ones.
[00:01:31] November 5th is the day of the military
[00:01:33] intelligence officer, it's not just a departmental holiday, since
[00:01:36] 2006, it has been officially included in the register
[00:01:40] of state holidays of the Russian Federation, which indicates the
[00:01:44] recognition of the importance of military intelligence in ensuring
[00:01:47] the defense capability of our country, and today
[00:01:51] the Access Code film crew at the
[00:01:54] headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate
[00:01:57] of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
[00:02:01] we are in the GRU, this
[00:02:03] abbreviation is very well known abroad, foreign
[00:02:06] intelligence agencies treat
[00:02:10] it with both professional respect and
[00:02:14] apprehension, because our military intelligence
[00:02:17] is rightly considered one of the best in the world. Getting
[00:02:21] here to the GRU headquarters is, to put it mildly, very
[00:02:24] difficult. This is quite understandable, everything related to military
[00:02:28] intelligence constitutes a state secret, the general public, naturally,
[00:02:31] does not know the service's staffing
[00:02:34] table, its technical equipment, or
[00:02:38] the nature and scale of its operations,
[00:02:41] but it is known that the Main Intelligence Directorate is
[00:02:45] the eyes, ears, and often the hands of our
[00:02:48] armed forces, because GRU units
[00:02:51] participate in the most critical
[00:02:54] and dangerous operations of our
[00:02:57] army. Military intelligence are operatives.
[00:03:00] Analyst officers, illegal intelligence officers,
[00:03:03] special forces soldiers, and servicemen of special
[00:03:06] electronic warfare and technical intelligence
[00:03:09] units, and the area of operation of the Main Intelligence
[00:03:13] Directorate is ubiquitous on land, at sea, in the air
[00:03:17] and in space. Western intelligence chiefs
[00:03:21] often speak about Russian intelligence. One of the latest
[00:03:25] high-profile statements in September 2026 was made
[00:03:28] by a CIA veteran. Sean Wiswesser,
[00:03:31] trying to reveal the principle of its effectiveness, called
[00:03:35] the GRU the most professional adversary in the field
[00:03:38] of intelligence in the world, with the caveat that even if
[00:03:41] the Russians make mistakes, they still achieve
[00:03:45] their goals. That's the whole secret: Russian intelligence
[00:03:48] is respected not for its infallibility, but for the fact that
[00:03:51] even in its shortcomings, the GRU remains
[00:03:54] the number one adversary on the planet. Together with
[00:03:57] intelligence veterans, historians. special services and
[00:04:00] experts, we will open the declassified pages of the Main
[00:04:04] Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian
[00:04:07] Federation and compare the view from across the ocean with what
[00:04:10] is hidden behind the walls of this formidable
[00:04:13] building.
[00:04:19] How Soviet agents obtained the main secrets of fascist
[00:04:22] Germany right in the enemy's lair in the very heart of the Third
[00:04:26] Reich. How GRU resident Akhil managed
[00:04:30] to extract the main secret of the American atomic project literally from under
[00:04:33] the nose of US intelligence agencies and remain
[00:04:37] invulnerable, how a nine-minute GRU operation in
[00:04:40] Prague became a benchmark example that is still
[00:04:44] studied in NATO academies. The exposition
[00:04:47] of the Closed Museum of GRU history reveals new
[00:04:50] pages of state history and changes
[00:04:53] the perception of secret operations. Most
[00:04:56] of these documents and exhibits until recently
[00:04:59] were stored in the GRU archives under the classification of
[00:05:02] top secret. In our research, we will show
[00:05:06] some of the most
[00:05:07] interesting ones.
[00:05:23] On November 5, 1918,
[00:05:26] a secret order of the Revolutionary Military Council No.
[00:05:29] 197/27
[00:05:32] was issued regarding the staffing table of the so-called
[00:05:35] field staff, which is an analogue of the current General
[00:05:39] Staff. This staffing table included
[00:05:43] a registration department, whose task
[00:05:46] was to provide
[00:05:49] the Revolutionary Military Council with summarized reports based on
[00:05:52] intelligence information received.
[00:05:55] This is how the history of the Main Intelligence
[00:05:58] Directorate began.
[00:06:00] By the way, the initiator of the creation of the registration
[00:06:04] department was none other than Leon Trotsky. And
[00:06:07] perhaps that is why Stalin distrusted military intelligence, despite
[00:06:10] the fact that this service in
[00:06:14] the 1930s and 1940s of the last century
[00:06:17] provided the Kremlin with invaluable
[00:06:19] intelligence information, and its employees
[00:06:23] became legends in the world history
[00:06:26] of intelligence agencies, these are Richard Sorge, operational
[00:06:29] pseudonym Ramsay, Sandor Rado,
[00:06:32] operational pseudonym Dora, and Jan
[00:06:35] Chernyak, operational pseudonym
[00:06:38] Jen. It was Jen who sent to the intelligence department
[00:06:42] of the General Staff of the Red Army documents, having studied
[00:06:46] which the country's leadership revised the entire military
[00:06:49] doctrine of the USSR. Soviet intelligence officers from early
[00:06:53] 1940 began to pay special
[00:06:56] attention to Nazi Germany, proving with their
[00:06:59] reports that the fascists were preparing for a major war
[00:07:03] against the Soviet Union. Hitler had already
[00:07:06] given instructions to prepare for an attack on the Soviet
[00:07:10] Union. The first information about this came in the summer
[00:07:13] of 1940, and then in December, very important
[00:07:17] information was reported to Moscow by the intelligence group
[00:07:20] in which Ida Stöbe, our
[00:07:24] famous Alta, worked, where it was said that
[00:07:26] Hitler had decided to start
[00:07:30] a war with the Soviet Union,
[00:07:32] and this telegram arrived in Moscow literally
[00:07:36] a week and a half after Hitler held a meeting
[00:07:39] where he announced: The USSR prepared for
[00:07:46] war with Nazi Germany in advance; a hidden mobilization
[00:07:50] was carried out. About 800,000
[00:07:52] people were drafted into the Red Army. Border
[00:07:56] troops were put on combat readiness. In the interior
[00:07:59] of the country, a second strategic echelon was formed
[00:08:02] that would move to the borders. Stalin knew about
[00:08:06] границам. Сталин знал о предстоящей войне, он
[00:08:09] miscalculated in another way.
[00:08:12] prepared to repel aggression, but the enemy
[00:08:15] was stronger at that moment, so the initial
[00:08:18] period turned out to be quite dramatic, at the same
[00:08:22] time I want to say that all the stories about Stalin
[00:08:25] falling simply and so on, this is not true, Stalin was only struck
[00:08:29] by one thing, how quickly the Red Army, his
[00:08:32] beloved Red Army, to which he devoted so much effort, so much
[00:08:36] attention, allocated funds for its development, so quickly began
[00:08:39] to suffer
[00:09:13] It was with such qualities that Soviet military
[00:09:16] intelligence officer Jan Chernyak possessed, who from London sent to
[00:09:19] Moscow the Barbarossa plan, just approved by Hitler.
[00:09:23] Resident Jen created an agent network
[00:09:26] that permeated the entire fascist top leadership, and he directed
[00:09:30] it while being outside Germany. He was very strong
[00:09:34] in sciences, he sat there modestly in the library, studied by himself,
[00:09:38] so he, this was his cover, a grey mouse, who had
[00:10:25] no equal in Europe, and none of her agents
[00:10:29] were ever exposed. He had a unique
[00:10:32] residency, which included 35 people
[00:10:36] personally recruited by him. It is characteristic
[00:10:39] that Chernyak himself, who
[00:10:42] changed documents, crossing many borders, never once
[00:10:46] came under suspicion anywhere, and none of his thirty-five
[00:10:49] sources also did not come under suspicion, were not
[00:10:53] arrested. A separate story about how
[00:10:56] military-technical information, including samples,
[00:10:59] was sent to the territory of the Soviet Union through
[00:11:03] couriers, in wartime crossing borders,
[00:11:06] borders, well, that's, that's just an example
[00:11:10] of how a professional in his field can
[00:11:13] solve his problems. Jan Chernyak lived a long life
[00:11:17] and passed away at 85 in a Moscow
[00:11:20] hospital. According to eyewitnesses, already before his death in a
[00:11:24] semi-conscious state.
[00:11:57] How a humble engineer from Patriarshiye duped the FBI and
[00:12:01] ensured nuclear parity for the USSR. How
[00:12:04] a nine-minute GRU operation in Prague became an exemplary
[00:12:08] example that is still studied in NATO
[00:12:11] academies. And why modern operations of Russian
[00:12:14] military intelligence cause special interest among Western
[00:12:18] intelligence services.
[00:12:30] Today on air, meanwhile, a live
[00:12:33] broadcast from the USA, an ordinary rout,
[00:12:37] who will Trump bill for the defeat, will he take revenge on
[00:12:41] Zelensky, when will negotiations between Moscow and
[00:12:44] Washington begin?
[00:12:46] Meanwhile, today at
[00:12:48] 22:35 on the
[00:12:51] Zvezda TV channel, an operative
[00:17:56] 1942, in the USA, a program was launched
[00:18:00] for the development of nuclear weapons under the code name
[00:18:03] Manhattan Project. It united leading scientists from.
[00:18:37] Soviet Union, together with his leader Kurchatov, and
[00:18:41] Khariton, and others, very
[00:18:44] many did not know, and initially Laboratory No. 2
[00:18:48] went the wrong way, it was only after receiving
[00:18:51] documents from Adams that they
[00:18:54] realized that this direction, which they
[00:18:57] were developing, was wrong, the same
[00:19:00] Adams who transmitted data to the Soviet Union,
[00:19:03] which played a key role in the development of nuclear.
[00:19:45] USA, simultaneously building a powerful illegal
[00:19:48] network. The technical laboratory he opened was
[00:19:51] an ideal cover for fulfilling the tasks set by the GRU.
[00:19:55] To provide the Soviet Union with information about
[00:19:58] secret developments of American scientists. They trusted him
[00:20:02] so much that they allowed him to recruit without
[00:20:05] coordination with the center. Even long before the nuclear
[00:20:09] bombing of Japan, agent Akhil sent a report
[00:20:12] to Moscow containing these words: My
[00:20:15] source reported that a projectile is already being designed that will be
[00:20:19] dropped on the earth. With its radiation and shock wave,
[00:20:23] this explosion will destroy all life within hundreds of miles. He
[00:20:27] would not want such a projectile to be dropped on the land of our
[00:20:30] country. Now the complete destruction
[00:20:33] of Japan is being planned, but there is no guarantee that our
[00:20:36] allies will not try to influence us as well
[00:20:40] when they have
[00:21:17] the Soviet army had...
[00:21:20] created, well, at that time, the most
[00:21:23] mysterious units, GRU special forces, in all
[00:21:26] military districts appeared 46 special
[00:21:29] purpose companies, the штатная численность
[00:21:33] of each, only 12 people, then brigades
[00:21:37] of special purpose were created,
[00:21:40] initially it was planned
[00:21:43] to deploy sabotage and reconnaissance groups of special forces
[00:21:46] into NATO countries in case of a new world
[00:21:49] war in order to disable command posts and
[00:21:52] strategic force bases. As of today,
[00:21:56] the Russian special forces training system
[00:21:59] is recognized as one of the best in
[00:22:02] the world. And GRU special forces soldiers
[00:22:05] are the elite of the Russian armed forces.
[00:22:09] The Czechoslovak Republic in the late sixties experienced the so-called
[00:22:13] Prague Spring. This threatened
[00:22:16] the unity of the socialist camp, so to quickly
[00:22:20] regain positions, the Kremlin sanctioned
[00:22:23] a special operation that became a benchmark for intelligence
[00:22:27] agencies. 1968,
[00:22:29] Ruzyně Airport. A GRU special forces group, disguised
[00:22:33] as a passenger liner crew, requested
[00:22:36] an emergency landing. In 9 minutes and 21
[00:22:40] seconds, they captured the airfield, the control tower,
[00:22:43] and the runway. This allowed for the unimpeded
[00:22:46] landing of aircraft with troops.
[00:22:50] lands and from there an enormous
[00:22:53] number of GRU personnel
[00:22:56] emerge, who seize
[00:22:59] both the air traffic control service and
[00:23:02] other airport services, after which the
[00:23:05] airport was practically captured, landings
[00:23:09] of wide-body aircraft began,
[00:23:12] in which paratroopers were located, every
[00:23:15] 30 seconds - aircraft landed
[00:23:18] directly at Prague Airport, and
[00:23:21] after that, the cleansing of Prague from those
[00:23:24] elements that were against the Soviet Union began. May
[00:23:28] 1968, Cambodia, a group
[00:23:31] of nine GRU special forces soldiers
[00:23:34] infiltrates a top-secret Fline
[00:23:37] Joe base, destroys the guards and hijacks the latest
[00:23:41] US combat helicopter AH-1G Huey
[00:23:45] Cobra. The goal was not the machine itself, but
[00:23:48] the latest guidance system. Intelligence
[00:23:51] found out that the Cobras were at a top-secret facility, the
[00:23:55] existence of which not even the Cambodian
[00:23:59] government knew. This daring operation was part
[00:24:02] of a systematic effort by hunters for NATO
[00:24:05] technologies. Their names
[00:24:50] of the Soviet defense industry. The complex
[00:24:53] military-scientific group was subordinate to the Main
[00:24:56] Intelligence Directorate and was formed from civilian
[00:24:59] specialists of the defense industry, reserve
[00:25:03] officers, top-category professionals in aviation
[00:25:06] equipment, weaponry, and radio electronics.
[00:25:09] They were led by a career GRU
[00:25:13] officer. Since the Americans are throwing new equipment, and not
[00:25:17] only American, there is Israeli and other...
[00:27:32] American, for example, one of the main trophies is
[00:27:35] the anti-radar missile
[00:27:37] AGM-45, it was guided by the radiation
[00:27:41] of Soviet anti-aircraft missile systems S-75
[00:27:45] Dvina, which we supplied to Vietnam. The Americans
[00:27:48] used it to destroy our
[00:27:51] SAM systems. Having studied the Shrike, Soviet engineers modernized
[00:27:55] the anti-aircraft missile systems, making them less
[00:27:58] vulnerable.
[00:28:05] The storming of Amin's palace, what decided the outcome of a special operation
[00:28:09] that went down in military textbooks, how the actions
[00:28:12] of the GRU in Yugoslavia weakened NATO's onslaught,
[00:28:16] why modern successes of Russian military intelligence
[00:28:19] cause serious concerns for the enemy.
[00:28:34] December 27, 1979.
[00:28:38] Kabul. The unpredictable and
[00:28:41] cruel policy of Afghanistan's leader Hafizullah Amin
[00:28:45] categorically does not suit the Kremlin, and they decide
[00:28:48] to replace him with a more loyal to Moscow Babrak
[00:28:51] Karmal. Only the KGB and GRU were capable of solving the task of
[00:28:55] eliminating him. Soviet special forces receive
[00:28:58] an order to storm the residence of the country's leader.
[00:29:02] The multi-tiered Tajbeg Palace with pillboxes and machine guns, in which
[00:29:06] Hafizullah Amin was located, stands on a hilltop, to which
[00:29:10] there is one serpentine road where even two cars cannot
[00:29:13] pass, the slopes are mined, inside
[00:29:17] Hafizullah Amin's personal guard, outside three
[00:29:20] motorized infantry battalions, tanks and an anti-aircraft regiment.
[00:29:24] 2,500 people, and in 43
[00:29:28] minutes all this will fall under the onslaught of GRU and
[00:29:32] KGB fighters. and indeed, in terms of
[00:29:34] fortification, it was an unprecedented fortress,
[00:29:37] in terms of its exploits and the
[00:29:40] complexity of the task, because it was not just
[00:29:44] a palace, it was a monstrously fortified area, a monstrously
[00:29:47] fortified area, and the fact that they showed
[00:29:51] courage, heroism, stealth, this, of course,
[00:29:54] deserves all praise, it was one of
[00:29:57] the most complex and effective GRU operations, it
[00:30:01] is analyzed in the training of American special forces,
[00:30:04] the assault claimed the lives of five KGB officers, two
[00:30:07] GRU intelligence officers, and eight paratroopers.
[00:30:11] Five participants in the operation were awarded the title of
[00:30:14] Hero of the Soviet Union. The operation involved
[00:30:17] a special purpose group from the State
[00:30:20] Security Committee, but the planning and overall command
[00:30:23] of the operation was carried out by military intelligence officer, Colonel Kolesnik. He
[00:30:26] was led by the head of the GRU. The operation
[00:30:30] took place at night with
[00:30:32] minimal losses, in less than one hour,
[00:30:35] the task was solved, the palace was captured, Amin was killed,
[00:30:39] this assault became part of all world
[00:30:42] textbooks for special services and special forces units.
[00:30:45] The dashing nineties became, perhaps, the most difficult
[00:30:49] period in the history of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
[00:30:53] State funding was significantly
[00:30:56] reduced, due to which foreign...