Gigulevich biography

But wide fame came to them as a result of failures that occurred into force of certain circumstances. These are the paradoxes of the profession of a reconnaissance-imprisonment-to become famous, to thunder throughout the world, we must "light up". And whoever remained unsolved is practically not known to anyone. Хотя по своему таланту, мужеству, профессиональному мастерству и ценности поступавшей от них информации они не только не уступали легендарным разведчикам, но и нередко превосходили их.

Joseph Gigulevich - one of them. Foster "and others. More recently, a book about this amazing person under the catchy name" Stalin Superhent "was published.

We are talking with its author - Vladimir Chikov, the old and kind friend of our newspaper. At the beginning of the year, I met the writer Joseph Lavretsky, who came there to conclude an agreement to reproduce his Bolivar book in the series “ZhZL” was introduced to Lavretsky as a novice writer, who brought the publication of his first story. He was of medium height, okay cut and stocks. After some five minutes of the conversation, I realized that I had met a bright personality and a person of universal knowledge.

Especially struck by his inner freedom, the courage of judgments and the originality of thinking. Naturally, I became interested in his unusual fate and said that I would really like to write a documentary book about his work behind Cordon and about those strict, cruel times with all kinds of ideological restrictions. But Lavretsky categorically refused: “Only after my death! He then flicked my manuscript and said:“ It is good not to take away the secrets of my intelligence work with him to the grave of my intelligence work, I am ready to tell you something about my past life at subsequent meetings.

In it, I believe, the tragedy of the entire Soviet intelligence with the punitive functions that was unusual for it was firmly reflected in it. Meetings with him were full of novelty and excitement, every time I was convinced that it was a great intelligence officer and a truly heroic personality. Then the former head of the department "C" of the Office of Illegal Intelligence.

And when he found out that I had been familiar with Lavretsky for a long time, he recommended requiring an “arthur” multi -volume business in the archive of the foreign intelligence service in order to familiarize and prepare a documentary book about Grigulevich. Indeed, the Arthur dossier helped me not only to learn more about the operations carried out, but also to find Comrades Grigulevich, to record their stories.

This system was needed. Joseph Romailedovich was born and formed as an underground in bourgeois Lithuania, then all subsequent years before his forty years he lived and worked in different countries of the world - France, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Uruguay, Chile, Italy, Brazil ... Born in the capitalist country, Gigulevich belonged to the generation of people who sincerely believed in the possibility of creating a fair society capable of resisting fascism and imperialism.

In his youth, Grigulevich vowed fidelity to the revolutionary affair and was inspired by his whole life by the ideals of good and justice put forward by the October Revolution. He began intelligence activities in Spain with such aces of Soviet intelligence as Berzin, Orlov, Syroezhkin and Eitingon, and during the Great Patriotic War, being in Latin American countries, he actively helped the USSR to fight against Hitler Germany.

After the war ended, Grigulevich continued to work selflessly for Soviet intelligence in South America, and then in Italy. He was proud when the political information he was obtained helped the USSR leadership to determine the main directions in relations with other countries, made it possible to make long -term forecasts in foreign policy and make more correct and balanced decisions on various international issues.

The successful intelligence of Grigulevich then struck even his colleagues in the service: no matter what task he was entrusted with, he performed him impeccably. For him, nothing was impossible, even without the instructions of the Moscow intelligence center, he understood which foreign policy information was relevant for the Soviet Union, and which requires additional coverage.

For twenty years of intelligence, he managed to become a citizen of ten states and worked under thirteen names, recruiting more than two hundred agents around the world. He was a man of desperate courage, rare resourcefulness, inexhaustible wit and great talent. He who knows how to think without difficulty and communicate in ten foreign languages, he turned his whole life before returning to the Soviet Union into a brilliant game, created for himself the role of a many -faced foreigner and played it professionally and accurately.Playing the roles of people of many nationalities-Spaniards, Poles, French, Argentines, Bolivians, Brazilians, Uruguayans, Americans, Italians, Chileans, Kostarikans, Mexicans and Cubans-and living their short lives, sometimes for two or three months, he absorbed their morals, customs, traditions and culture, while always remaining himself, while always remaining himself, and always remaining himself.

Remembering that his real homeland is the Soviet Union. He called it the top of Soviet intelligence, which only those who are marked and chosen by God are capable of. Grigulevich was the first of the scouts to penetrate the Vatican was the only one who was able to gain high confidence in the Pope, who personally dedicated him to the Maltese Order. Now think about it: the Soviet intelligence officer is becoming an extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Costa Rica to Italy and part-time in the Vatican and Yugoslavia.

Neither before nor after Grigulevich not a single scout made such a fantastic career. Yes, Soviet intelligence officers could have recruited ministers, ambassadors, high -ranking officials from the immediate environment of presidents, foreign policy departments and special services of the enemy - and not in one, but in different countries of the world. But so that some “spy” become the ambassador of a foreign country, and even in Italy, it sounded so implausible that no one had fit in his head.

Especially when you take into account the role and place of Italy in the capitalist world, a special policy of the Vatican and the then Soviet-Yugoslav relations. In this situation, Grigulevich needed a special conspiracy. And he brought her almost to perfection. At the same time, theodor Castro processed the American special services and even tried to recruit ...

Soviet intelligence officer. True, we must pay tribute to the Vatican services: they are the only ones who found a reason to suspect him due to the fact that he, the Latin American, did not baptize his daughter. However, no evidence was found. In the year, he was unexpectedly recalled from Italy and fired from intelligence. And then he was only forty years old. But one thing is to change the legend, another is to part with your vocation, with the main thing of life.

I think he managed not to lose himself because he served not only the state, but also the idea. He was offered a job in the committee on cultural relations with foreign countries, he became vice president of friendship with Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba. However, he really found himself in science. Plus, the author of three dozen books, the editor -in -chief and member of the editorial collegies of several magazines, scientific collections and annuals.

But this appeal was left without attention. So the outstanding Soviet scientist and the legendary intelligence officer-illegal without the rank of a farewell volley, which was due to his rank, passed away. They did not remember him and on the day of the decade from the day of his death. The great writer Viktor Hugo, on the grave of another giant of French literature, Honore de Balzac said that outstanding people during their lifetime erect a pedestal, and the future puts monuments to them.

These wise words fully relate to Joseph Romualdovich Gigulevich, who immortalized his name in Russian intelligence. We did not have such non-allegors such as Joseph Gigulevich. The thing is that this person is able to think without difficulty and speak several foreign languages, play with the brilliance of the role of people of different nationalities and professions. The true talent of Joseph Romualdovich Gigulevich, my student, was that he knew how to choose a key to any person, even for such an enemy in intelligence, and in humanitarian science he stood in other positions ...

Nikolai Leonov deputy of the USSR, former deputy chief of foreign intelligence of the KGB of the KGB, Iosif Grigulevich, is an outstanding in all respects. A person who could not, by virtue of its stereoscopicity, give himself himself only one business in life. And therefore, he managed to become an excellent-imperial intelligence officer and an excellent businessman, a well-known Latin-American scientist and an outstanding writer-publicist.

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