Analysis of

Through the Eyes of the Enemy 

 by Stanislav Lunev (Chapter 5,6,7)

by Dr. Jeffrey Russell, PhD Stanislav Lunev was a Soviet GRU agent who defected to the United States in March of 1992 after a successful career of intelligence gathering from China and the United States. As the highest-ranking military defector to the U.S., he is in a unique position to detail the intelligence aspect of the cold war and the emergence of the Russian mafia as a threat to national security. His only book to date was published May 25, 1998. [Note: This book was published 20 years ago and much has changed with geopolitics. The purpose of this analysis, in relation to Q post #827 on February 24, 2018, is to aid in decoding the meaning of the post.] Chapter 5 Hungary: Learning to Penetrate Enemy Lines

As I rode the train to Hungary, I was surprised to find that the land and fields were much more cleaner and organized than the Ukraine. Everything was kept well because the people cared for their land. At my new camp, I was assigned to the Deep Reconnaissance Company.

Our mission was to penetrate enemy lines and perform functions within the enemy’s territory

such as reconnaissance, capture POWs, destroy military buildings, capture/hold bridges and tunnels. This was equivalent to the Western special forces. The Spetznatz units operated in deep cover only as tactical units. As a result of my successes, I was invited by the Intelligence Directorate to join the Spetznatz for some real action in Vietnam. I declined that offer, since I was already accepted at the Lenin Law School. He told me to give him a call just in case I failed my entrance exams. In 1971, I passed the entrance exams and I was able to begin work at the Law School. I was married and had a new daughter and life was getting better. Chapter 6 Military Justice

 

 At the academy we spent a lot of time studying Marxist-Leninist ideology, the history of the Communist Party, political economics, and theory of scientific communism. Here, total loyalty to the communist regime was demanded. One privilege I had there was to visit the archives of the Central State Lenin Library and view the original documents with handwritten notes. What I found was quite shocking. Many of the leaders were obviously mentally and morally deranged. They had ordered the deaths of millions of regular citizens whose only crime was to be dissatisfied with the regime in power. I read one paper by Lenin which ordered intelligence officers to go into small towns and stir up the civilians, after which the military would arrive and kill everyone in sight. During the middle of my last year there, my class commander called me into his office and introduced me to a gray-haired man in civilian clothes. He was introduced as Sergei Fedorovich. After asking me a wide variety of questions, he identified himself as a colonel in the GRU. He asked me if I would consider joining. I told him that it would be an honor to serve there. Then I signed a form saying that our meeting never took place. After a series of difficult tests, I ended up in a meeting facing 2 generals. They informed me that I passed the tests and then asked me dozens more questions. At the end of the grilling a 2-star air force general welcomed me to

“the Family of Soviet Military Intelligence.”

 After graduating from law school, I reported to the Military Diplomatic Academy (MDA) for my GRU assignment. I was assigned to the First Faculty, which meant I was to work as a real spy. I was told to report to the Music Band complex where I would spend my first year of my new education. Chapter 7 Training and Terrorism I began my spy training Sept. 1, 1975 at the Moscow Military Districts Music Band compound. This was the GRU First Faculty. We were given our permanent assignments based on geographical regions. I was given East Asia. We were also given our 3-digit identity which we used instead of our names. That way, if an operator went rogue he could only give numbers and not names.

When the numbering system wasn’t working, we were told to use our wives’

names. I was assigned to the Chinese subgroup. The GRU standards were very high and the attrition rate was considerable. Russia regarded China as its #2 enemy, so our roles were very important. Our training included every part of spy craft. We also learned in detail the different parts of the American military. I discovered that the GRU was spending huge amounts of money funding antiwar demonstrations in the US. They used multiple cutouts for these activities to hide the true source of the funds. I also learned that the GRU was one of the primary instructors of terrorists worldwide.