Analysis of

Through the Eyes of the Enemy 

 by Stanislav Lunev (Chapter 14,15)

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 14 My Spies One sunny day in the summer of 1990, I spent the day going to sites that supported my official cover. At dusk, I drove to a small parking lot and waited near a certain payphone with my hood raised to indicate to anyone interested that I was having car trouble. If the phone rings 3 times and then a few minutes later rings 3 more times, then I was being followed. The Zenit at the GRU field office were listening to FBI frequencies all day to determine if I was being followed. The phone was quiet, so I drove to my secluded drop site which was a country road in northern Virginia. I stopped on the road at an agreed spot and picked up a Coca Cola can from the side of the road. This was no ordinary can. Its lid actually screwed on and items could be stored on the inside. This particular can was designed by the GRU and if anyone other than a GRU agent opened the can, the contents would self-destruct. I took the can back to my field office so that a specialist could open it up. Inside

 

was a film of a transcript of a closed hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the disintegration of Soviet Union. This was very valuable to Moscow. Another agent which I developed was a USAF Lt. Colonel who was the DOD liaison to foreign reporters. During operation Desert Storm, he gave me boxes of detailed info on every piece of military hardware used in that war. He also invited me to a special show at Andrews AFB where next-generation high tech weapons were demonstrated. These were B2 bombers, Stealth fighters, and high-tech cruise missiles. While there I took many photos with a special GRU camera as well as regular TASS photos. I had a special transparent glove to touch the surface of an F-117 to get a sample of the composite materials used. This was sent back to Moscow for analysis immediately on Aeroflot. This same contact also got me an invitation to visit a sensitive chemical destruction facility on Johnston Island near Hawaii. Everywhere I went there, the FBI has 2 men in front

and 2 men in the back as a “surveillance show.” We were

flown to the island about 2 hours away and I was able to get about 200 shots of the nuclear test facilities there. I was quite surprised to see how well the soldiers were treated. They even had their own golf course there for recreation among other things. When I made it back to DC and transferred all the intelligence to Moscow, both I and the DC resident received accommodation from the GRU Director himself. Out of all the agents I recruited in DC, I only had one support agent. He got a  job at a service station and we used him as a safe drop. People always want to hear about my covert exploits, but the truth is trying to be covert in an open country like the U.S. just shows a lack of talent. Th

e best spy will be everyone’s

best friend, not some shadowy figure in the corner. [Note: Good example is Bob Hope who was an agent of the Deep State working under Henry Kissinger.] Chapter 15 A Coup in Moscow, A New Life in America On the morning of August 19, 1991, my wife Natalie roused me out of sleep

with, “

Wake up, there are tanks on the streets in Moscow!" I heard a voice from

the TV saying, “tanks in the streets……military coup attempt……. emergency

 

situation in the Soviet capital!” I remember

 warning Gorbachev that this was possible this month. The coup failed in 3 days and Yeltsin reasserted his leadership with Gorbachev. As the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation fell into trouble, so did the GRU. The GRU existed to protect the Motherland and the people from foreign powers. We knew the Russian Federation could not exist without order and

Gorbachev’s reforms s

et in motion the dissolution of the government. The power vacuum that was created was quickly filled by the Russian Mafia. In March of 1992, I made my own decision on how to deal with the death of the Soviet Union

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I defected. Many of my friends in the GRU quit and took up positions with Russian companies. But these were just front for organized crime. Indeed, Russia today is a criminal-capitalist state. [Note: This was in 1998 before Putin] In February of 1996, President Yeltsin ordered that industrial espionage become the top priority for Russian intelligence agencies. The GRU is now putting all of its efforts into recruiting from major international corporations. The goal, quite simply, is to hurt the American and international economies as much as possible, while filling the pockets of the Russian mafia and politicians. Russia is still trying to subvert the West, but now through economic rather than military and ideological means, and the ultimate goal is not the defense

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or advance

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of socialism and the Motherland; it is simply criminal profiteering. To me, I am not a traitor. I was a loyal citizen of the Soviet Union, a country that was destroyed by traitors who dismembered the country for their own profit. The country I was sworn to defend no longer exists. The criminal regime that rules now is one I will not serve. After I defected, I lived in a gated community in Maryland and was debriefed by every major intelligence agency in the U.S. All of my debriefers were the same

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they could not decide whether I was a genuine defector or a plant. Here I was risking my life and giving them everything they asked for and they still would not trust me. This tore me up inside. After all the debriefings, they got me a job with a marketing firm working inside Russia. I was a security consultant there. Eventually, I came in contact with the Jamestown Foundation, a small non-profit think tank devoted to keeping Americans informed about current activity in Russia. They put out a newsletter and I was happy to write several articles for them.