Oleg Nechiporenko

Oleg Nichiporenko (Олег Максимович Нечипоренко) is a Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence and security official, lobbyist and author[1] Nechiporenko is known for his spy work in South America, Lebanon and Vietnam,[2] [3] as well as for his involvement in formulating Russian censorship policies and attacking dissidents.

Oleg Nechiporenko was born on July 4, 1932. After graduating from the Institute of Foreign Languages in 1958 Nechiporenko was recruited by the KGB. His main areas of expertise were North and South America.[4] In 1961-65 and 1967-71 Nechiporenko worked in Mexico under the cover of Soviet embassy. In this capacity he met Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.[5][6]

In March 1971 Nechiporenko was expulsed from Mexico with four other Soviet agents. From 1972 Nechiporenko worked for the KGB’s counter-intelligence department (Department K) where he was responsible for protecting Soviet trade and financial organizations abroad.[7] He also travelled to Vietnam to interrogae US prisoners of war.[8]

From 1982 Nechiporenko curated Soviet radio and television programs.

Between 1985 and 1991 Nichiporenko worked for the Andropov Institute in Moscow, the KGB training school, where he was teaching the theory and practice of information gathering.

In 1992 Nechiporenko became an expert with the International counter terrorism training association in Moscow.[9]

In 1994 Nechiporenko began collaborating with the PIK Research Center. Priority areas of the Center's research studies are international security, terrorism, arms control and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.[10] In the 1990s Nechiporenko worked as a geopolitics expert with the State Duma. In this capacity he called for introducing censorship and self-censorship in the Russian press.[3]

In 2002 Nechiporenko was appointed director of the National Anti-Criminal and Anti-Terrorist Foundation, or NAAF. Members of the State Duma’s security committee and law enforcement veterans formed NAAF in February 2002. Its stated goal was to help create guidelines for Russian journalists writing about terrorism and make censorship recommendations for the media.[11]

In 2005 Nechiporenko actively participated in public attacks on Leonid Rozhetskin, a Russian-born US-British media magnate, publisher of British newspaper CityAM[12] and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin.[13][14] Nechiporenko was part of the public commission lobbying for legal persecution of Rozhetskin on fraud charges.[15] In 2008 Leonid Rozhetskin vanished from his villa in a feared KGB plot.[16] In 2012 Rozhetskin''s decomposed body was found in a remote part of Latvia.

In 2008 Oleg Nechiporenko was appointed chief counter-terrorism expert of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, a Russian-led military alliance made of former Soviet states.[17]

References

  1. ↑ .https://www.rt.com/shows/spotlight/oleg-nechiporenko-retired-kgb-colonel/
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Oleg-Nechiporenko/e/B001I76VHU
  3. 1 2 http://www.milrf.ru/public/ss_ts/iwar/19960314_nechiporenko.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.agentura.co.uk/dossier/russia/people/nechiporenko/
  5. ↑ http://svr.gov.ru/smi/2008/kp20081120.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.a-lubyanka.ru/page/author/48
  7. ↑ RT (2007-05-31), Spotlight with Oleg Nechiporenko, a Retired KGB Colonel, retrieved 2016-03-20
  8. ↑ PARKS, MICHAEL (1992-01-10). "Ex-KGB Spy Meets Press, Shows He Can Keep Secrets : Intelligence: Ex-colonel says he saw only one POW in Vietnam. He met Oswald but refuses to give details.". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  9. ↑ RT (2007-05-31), Spotlight with Oleg Nechiporenko, a Retired KGB Colonel, retrieved 2016-03-20
  10. ↑ http://www.pircenter.org/en/experts/422-nechiporenko-oleg-m
  11. ↑ http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/locking-horns-over-terror-coverage/246517.html
  12. ↑ "City A.M. | Business with personality". www.cityam.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  13. ↑ Дмитриев, Юрий (22 June 2005). "Мошенник должен сидеть. Дело Рожецкина расследуют депутаты.". Трибуна, Москва.
  14. ↑ Blomfield, By Caroline Gammell and Adrian. "City AM backer Leonid Rozhetskin feared dead". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  15. ↑ "ДНИ.РУ ИНТЕРНЕТ-ГАЗЕТА ВЕРСИЯ 5.0 / "Дело Рожецкина" расследуют депутаты". www.dni.ru. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  16. ↑ "KGB plot fears as London oligarch vanishes and traces of blood are found in his mansion". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  17. ↑ http://zebroid.tv/watch/mPSRn3ePHHI/veteran-kgb-sssr-oleg-nechiporenko-istoriya-terrorizma-doklad-v-odkb.html
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