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00:00:00logistics, which the upcoming war, he ultimately affects
00:00:03the final cost of energy resources. The street
00:00:06battles that unfolded on the territory of European states began
00:00:10with the demands of French students to increase
00:00:13the funding of educational institutions. The other thing is that
00:00:16yes, these protests, so to speak, then escalated into completely
00:00:20unconventional methods, yes, that is, pogroms,
00:00:24looting and so on. A quite logical
00:00:27consequence of the policy that European. young
00:00:36Europeans about increasing funding for the educational
00:00:39sphere, both in France and in other EU countries,
00:00:43points were added about improving the quality of life,
00:00:46the basis of which were cheap energy resources from Russia,
00:00:50when society understands that it has started to live much worse, then they will rather
00:00:54try to change power by changing power
00:00:57try to change the course, and the course can be changed only in one way:
00:01:01return to the bosom of friendship with Russia. And the only
00:01:04option for European elites to curb the wave of protests
00:01:08is dialogue with Russia an agreement on the supply of
00:01:11energy resources to the EU. But the conditions under which
00:01:15Moscow will agree to help will differ significantly
00:01:18from previous ones.
00:01:31November 5th is the day of the military
00:01:33intelligence officer, it's not just a departmental holiday, since
00:01:362006, it has been officially included in the register
00:01:40of state holidays of the Russian Federation, which indicates the
00:01:44recognition of the importance of military intelligence in ensuring
00:01:47the defense capability of our country, and today
00:01:51the Access Code film crew at the
00:01:54headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate
00:01:57of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
00:02:01we are in the GRU, this
00:02:03abbreviation is very well known abroad, foreign
00:02:06intelligence agencies treat
00:02:10it with both professional respect and
00:02:14apprehension, because our military intelligence
00:02:17is rightly considered one of the best in the world. Getting
00:02:21here to the GRU headquarters is, to put it mildly, very
00:02:24difficult. This is quite understandable, everything related to military
00:02:28intelligence constitutes a state secret, the general public, naturally,
00:02:31does not know the service's staffing
00:02:34table, its technical equipment, or
00:02:38the nature and scale of its operations,
00:02:41but it is known that the Main Intelligence Directorate is
00:02:45the eyes, ears, and often the hands of our
00:02:48armed forces, because GRU units
00:02:51participate in the most critical
00:02:54and dangerous operations of our
00:02:57army. Military intelligence are operatives.
00:03:00Analyst officers, illegal intelligence officers,
00:03:03special forces soldiers, and servicemen of special
00:03:06electronic warfare and technical intelligence
00:03:09units, and the area of operation of the Main Intelligence
00:03:13Directorate is ubiquitous on land, at sea, in the air
00:03:17and in space. Western intelligence chiefs
00:03:21often speak about Russian intelligence. One of the latest
00:03:25high-profile statements in September 2026 was made
00:03:28by a CIA veteran. Sean Wiswesser,
00:03:31trying to reveal the principle of its effectiveness, called
00:03:35the GRU the most professional adversary in the field
00:03:38of intelligence in the world, with the caveat that even if
00:03:41the Russians make mistakes, they still achieve
00:03:45their goals. That's the whole secret: Russian intelligence
00:03:48is respected not for its infallibility, but for the fact that
00:03:51even in its shortcomings, the GRU remains
00:03:54the number one adversary on the planet. Together with
00:03:57intelligence veterans, historians. special services and
00:04:00experts, we will open the declassified pages of the Main
00:04:04Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian
00:04:07Federation and compare the view from across the ocean with what
00:04:10is hidden behind the walls of this formidable
00:04:13building.
00:04:19How Soviet agents obtained the main secrets of fascist
00:04:22Germany right in the enemy's lair in the very heart of the Third
00:04:26Reich. How GRU resident Akhil managed
00:04:30to extract the main secret of the American atomic project literally from under
00:04:33the nose of US intelligence agencies and remain
00:04:37invulnerable, how a nine-minute GRU operation in
00:04:40Prague became a benchmark example that is still
00:04:44studied in NATO academies. The exposition
00:04:47of the Closed Museum of GRU history reveals new
00:04:50pages of state history and changes
00:04:53the perception of secret operations. Most
00:04:56of these documents and exhibits until recently
00:04:59were stored in the GRU archives under the classification of
00:05:02top secret. In our research, we will show
00:05:06some of the most
00:05:07interesting ones.
00:05:23On November 5, 1918,
00:05:26a secret order of the Revolutionary Military Council No.
00:05:29197/27
00:05:32was issued regarding the staffing table of the so-called
00:05:35field staff, which is an analogue of the current General
00:05:39Staff. This staffing table included
00:05:43a registration department, whose task
00:05:46was to provide
00:05:49the Revolutionary Military Council with summarized reports based on
00:05:52intelligence information received.
00:05:55This is how the history of the Main Intelligence
00:05:58Directorate began.
00:06:00By the way, the initiator of the creation of the registration
00:06:04department was none other than Leon Trotsky. And
00:06:07perhaps that is why Stalin distrusted military intelligence, despite
00:06:10the fact that this service in
00:06:14the 1930s and 1940s of the last century
00:06:17provided the Kremlin with invaluable
00:06:19intelligence information, and its employees
00:06:23became legends in the world history
00:06:26of intelligence agencies, these are Richard Sorge, operational
00:06:29pseudonym Ramsay, Sandor Rado,
00:06:32operational pseudonym Dora, and Jan
00:06:35Chernyak, operational pseudonym
00:06:38Jen. It was Jen who sent to the intelligence department
00:06:42of the General Staff of the Red Army documents, having studied
00:06:46which the country's leadership revised the entire military
00:06:49doctrine of the USSR. Soviet intelligence officers from early
00:06:531940 began to pay special
00:06:56attention to Nazi Germany, proving with their
00:06:59reports that the fascists were preparing for a major war
00:07:03against the Soviet Union. Hitler had already
00:07:06given instructions to prepare for an attack on the Soviet
00:07:10Union. The first information about this came in the summer
00:07:13of 1940, and then in December, very important
00:07:17information was reported to Moscow by the intelligence group
00:07:20in which Ida Stöbe, our
00:07:24famous Alta, worked, where it was said that
00:07:26Hitler had decided to start
00:07:30a war with the Soviet Union,
00:07:32and this telegram arrived in Moscow literally
00:07:36a week and a half after Hitler held a meeting
00:07:39where he announced: The USSR prepared for
00:07:46war with Nazi Germany in advance; a hidden mobilization
00:07:50was carried out. About 800,000
00:07:52people were drafted into the Red Army. Border
00:07:56troops were put on combat readiness. In the interior
00:07:59of the country, a second strategic echelon was formed
00:08:02that would move to the borders. Stalin knew about
00:08:06границам. Сталин знал о предстоящей войне, он
00:08:09miscalculated in another way.
00:08:12prepared to repel aggression, but the enemy
00:08:15was stronger at that moment, so the initial
00:08:18period turned out to be quite dramatic, at the same
00:08:22time I want to say that all the stories about Stalin
00:08:25falling simply and so on, this is not true, Stalin was only struck
00:08:29by one thing, how quickly the Red Army, his
00:08:32beloved Red Army, to which he devoted so much effort, so much
00:08:36attention, allocated funds for its development, so quickly began
00:08:39to suffer
00:09:13It was with such qualities that Soviet military
00:09:16intelligence officer Jan Chernyak possessed, who from London sent to
00:09:19Moscow the Barbarossa plan, just approved by Hitler.
00:09:23Resident Jen created an agent network
00:09:26that permeated the entire fascist top leadership, and he directed
00:09:30it while being outside Germany. He was very strong
00:09:34in sciences, he sat there modestly in the library, studied by himself,
00:09:38so he, this was his cover, a grey mouse, who had
00:10:25no equal in Europe, and none of her agents
00:10:29were ever exposed. He had a unique
00:10:32residency, which included 35 people
00:10:36personally recruited by him. It is characteristic
00:10:39that Chernyak himself, who
00:10:42changed documents, crossing many borders, never once
00:10:46came under suspicion anywhere, and none of his thirty-five
00:10:49sources also did not come under suspicion, were not
00:10:53arrested. A separate story about how
00:10:56military-technical information, including samples,
00:10:59was sent to the territory of the Soviet Union through
00:11:03couriers, in wartime crossing borders,
00:11:06borders, well, that's, that's just an example
00:11:10of how a professional in his field can
00:11:13solve his problems. Jan Chernyak lived a long life
00:11:17and passed away at 85 in a Moscow
00:11:20hospital. According to eyewitnesses, already before his death in a
00:11:24semi-conscious state.
00:11:57How a humble engineer from Patriarshiye duped the FBI and
00:12:01ensured nuclear parity for the USSR. How
00:12:04a nine-minute GRU operation in Prague became an exemplary
00:12:08example that is still studied in NATO
00:12:11academies. And why modern operations of Russian
00:12:14military intelligence cause special interest among Western
00:12:18intelligence services.
00:12:30Today on air, meanwhile, a live
00:12:33broadcast from the USA, an ordinary rout,
00:12:37who will Trump bill for the defeat, will he take revenge on
00:12:41Zelensky, when will negotiations between Moscow and
00:12:44Washington begin?
00:12:46Meanwhile, today at
00:12:4822:35 on the
00:12:51Zvezda TV channel, an operative
00:17:561942, in the USA, a program was launched
00:18:00for the development of nuclear weapons under the code name
00:18:03Manhattan Project. It united leading scientists from.
00:18:37Soviet Union, together with his leader Kurchatov, and
00:18:41Khariton, and others, very
00:18:44many did not know, and initially Laboratory No. 2
00:18:48went the wrong way, it was only after receiving
00:18:51documents from Adams that they
00:18:54realized that this direction, which they
00:18:57were developing, was wrong, the same
00:19:00Adams who transmitted data to the Soviet Union,
00:19:03which played a key role in the development of nuclear.
00:19:45USA, simultaneously building a powerful illegal
00:19:48network. The technical laboratory he opened was
00:19:51an ideal cover for fulfilling the tasks set by the GRU.
00:19:55To provide the Soviet Union with information about
00:19:58secret developments of American scientists. They trusted him
00:20:02so much that they allowed him to recruit without
00:20:05coordination with the center. Even long before the nuclear
00:20:09bombing of Japan, agent Akhil sent a report
00:20:12to Moscow containing these words: My
00:20:15source reported that a projectile is already being designed that will be
00:20:19dropped on the earth. With its radiation and shock wave,
00:20:23this explosion will destroy all life within hundreds of miles. He
00:20:27would not want such a projectile to be dropped on the land of our
00:20:30country. Now the complete destruction
00:20:33of Japan is being planned, but there is no guarantee that our
00:20:36allies will not try to influence us as well
00:20:40when they have
00:21:17the Soviet army had...
00:21:20created, well, at that time, the most
00:21:23mysterious units, GRU special forces, in all
00:21:26military districts appeared 46 special
00:21:29purpose companies, the штатная численность
00:21:33of each, only 12 people, then brigades
00:21:37of special purpose were created,
00:21:40initially it was planned
00:21:43to deploy sabotage and reconnaissance groups of special forces
00:21:46into NATO countries in case of a new world
00:21:49war in order to disable command posts and
00:21:52strategic force bases. As of today,
00:21:56the Russian special forces training system
00:21:59is recognized as one of the best in
00:22:02the world. And GRU special forces soldiers
00:22:05are the elite of the Russian armed forces.
00:22:09The Czechoslovak Republic in the late sixties experienced the so-called
00:22:13Prague Spring. This threatened
00:22:16the unity of the socialist camp, so to quickly
00:22:20regain positions, the Kremlin sanctioned
00:22:23a special operation that became a benchmark for intelligence
00:22:27agencies. 1968,
00:22:29Ruzyně Airport. A GRU special forces group, disguised
00:22:33as a passenger liner crew, requested
00:22:36an emergency landing. In 9 minutes and 21
00:22:40seconds, they captured the airfield, the control tower,
00:22:43and the runway. This allowed for the unimpeded
00:22:46landing of aircraft with troops.
00:22:50lands and from there an enormous
00:22:53number of GRU personnel
00:22:56emerge, who seize
00:22:59both the air traffic control service and
00:23:02other airport services, after which the
00:23:05airport was practically captured, landings
00:23:09of wide-body aircraft began,
00:23:12in which paratroopers were located, every
00:23:1530 seconds - aircraft landed
00:23:18directly at Prague Airport, and
00:23:21after that, the cleansing of Prague from those
00:23:24elements that were against the Soviet Union began. May
00:23:281968, Cambodia, a group
00:23:31of nine GRU special forces soldiers
00:23:34infiltrates a top-secret Fline
00:23:37Joe base, destroys the guards and hijacks the latest
00:23:41US combat helicopter AH-1G Huey
00:23:45Cobra. The goal was not the machine itself, but
00:23:48the latest guidance system. Intelligence
00:23:51found out that the Cobras were at a top-secret facility, the
00:23:55existence of which not even the Cambodian
00:23:59government knew. This daring operation was part
00:24:02of a systematic effort by hunters for NATO
00:24:05technologies. Their names
00:24:50of the Soviet defense industry. The complex
00:24:53military-scientific group was subordinate to the Main
00:24:56Intelligence Directorate and was formed from civilian
00:24:59specialists of the defense industry, reserve
00:25:03officers, top-category professionals in aviation
00:25:06equipment, weaponry, and radio electronics.
00:25:09They were led by a career GRU
00:25:13officer. Since the Americans are throwing new equipment, and not
00:25:17only American, there is Israeli and other...
00:27:32American, for example, one of the main trophies is
00:27:35the anti-radar missile
00:27:37AGM-45, it was guided by the radiation
00:27:41of Soviet anti-aircraft missile systems S-75
00:27:45Dvina, which we supplied to Vietnam. The Americans
00:27:48used it to destroy our
00:27:51SAM systems. Having studied the Shrike, Soviet engineers modernized
00:27:55the anti-aircraft missile systems, making them less
00:27:58vulnerable.
00:28:05The storming of Amin's palace, what decided the outcome of a special operation
00:28:09that went down in military textbooks, how the actions
00:28:12of the GRU in Yugoslavia weakened NATO's onslaught,
00:28:16why modern successes of Russian military intelligence
00:28:19cause serious concerns for the enemy.
00:28:34December 27, 1979.
00:28:38Kabul. The unpredictable and
00:28:41cruel policy of Afghanistan's leader Hafizullah Amin
00:28:45categorically does not suit the Kremlin, and they decide
00:28:48to replace him with a more loyal to Moscow Babrak
00:28:51Karmal. Only the KGB and GRU were capable of solving the task of
00:28:55eliminating him. Soviet special forces receive
00:28:58an order to storm the residence of the country's leader.
00:29:02The multi-tiered Tajbeg Palace with pillboxes and machine guns, in which
00:29:06Hafizullah Amin was located, stands on a hilltop, to which
00:29:10there is one serpentine road where even two cars cannot
00:29:13pass, the slopes are mined, inside
00:29:17Hafizullah Amin's personal guard, outside three
00:29:20motorized infantry battalions, tanks and an anti-aircraft regiment.
00:29:242,500 people, and in 43
00:29:28minutes all this will fall under the onslaught of GRU and
00:29:32KGB fighters. and indeed, in terms of
00:29:34fortification, it was an unprecedented fortress,
00:29:37in terms of its exploits and the
00:29:40complexity of the task, because it was not just
00:29:44a palace, it was a monstrously fortified area, a monstrously
00:29:47fortified area, and the fact that they showed
00:29:51courage, heroism, stealth, this, of course,
00:29:54deserves all praise, it was one of
00:29:57the most complex and effective GRU operations, it
00:30:01is analyzed in the training of American special forces,
00:30:04the assault claimed the lives of five KGB officers, two
00:30:07GRU intelligence officers, and eight paratroopers.
00:30:11Five participants in the operation were awarded the title of
00:30:14Hero of the Soviet Union. The operation involved
00:30:17a special purpose group from the State
00:30:20Security Committee, but the planning and overall command
00:30:23of the operation was carried out by military intelligence officer, Colonel Kolesnik. He
00:30:26was led by the head of the GRU. The operation
00:30:30took place at night with
00:30:32minimal losses, in less than one hour,
00:30:35the task was solved, the palace was captured, Amin was killed,
00:30:39this assault became part of all world
00:30:42textbooks for special services and special forces units.
00:30:45The dashing nineties became, perhaps, the most difficult
00:30:49period in the history of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
00:30:53State funding was significantly
00:30:56reduced, due to which foreign...