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Looking back on his career in the KGB, Oleg Kalugin concludes that, like "the stranglehold over the Church inside the Soviet Union," the penetration and exploitation of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad was "one of the most sordid and little hown chapters in the history of our organization."60 Mitrokhin came to the same [(inclusion, commenting at one point in his notes that the files contained "a whirl-pi of filth."61 The KGB used its agents among Russian Orthodox clergy in the West not merely to spy on emigre communities but also to identify possible agent milts.62 Though the Russian Orthodox Church in north America was split, the faction which remained loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate was, according to Kalugin, "riddled with KGB agents."63 Among the agents identified in the files noted by Mitrokhin was a cleric codenamed PETROV, who was sent to north America in the 1970s. His case officers in north America contacted him by using the passwords "Pyotr Mikhailovich," the first name and patronymic of his Fifth Directorate controller in Moscow.64
The file on Arkadi Rodyonovich Tyshchuk (VORONOV), a priest who was posted to the Nikolsky Russian Orthodox cathedral in New York from 1977 to 1982, contains evidence of a hostility to the United States which may also have helped to motivate other Orthodox priests in the KGB's north American network. The Units States, VORONOV told his KGB case officer, suffered from the sin of pride—"ac pride comes before a fall:" When a country declares itself to be the most powerful and the richest, and that its government is the smartest and possesses the best weapons—that is not maturity, it is bragging, and is the reason for the downfall of all the powerful nations of the past. VORONOV usually met his controller from the New York residency either at M Soviet mission to the United Nations, where he went to collect his correspondence from Russia, or on board the ship Mikhail Lermontov, which regularly came into port at New York. More difficult to explain than his hostility to the United States was his apparent admiration for the KGB which, according to his file, he bizarrely described as a "good shepherd" and a "true Russian spiritual guardian and shepherd."65 Russian Orthodox priests in the West were also used by FCD Directorate S to 1 collect material for use in devising the well-documented legends of KGB illegals.In 1 the early 1970s, for example, two KGB agents in the Moscow Patriarchate were sent to carry out detailed research on parish registers in Canada. Ivan GrigoryevichBoi-; cha (codenamed FYODOR), who worked as a priest in prairie parishes of Ukrainian and Romanian communities, studied registers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Viktoi| Sergeyevich Petlyuchenko (PATRIOT), who was assigned to Orthodox parishes in Edmonton, carried out further research in Alberta.66 The Russian Orthodox Church, both at home and abroad, took a prominent part in the Rodina ("Motherland") Society founded as a front organization by the KGB in December 1975 to promote "cultural relations with compatriots abroad," and™ provide new opportunities for agent recruitment among emigre communities. Iti vice-president, P. I. Vasilyev, was a senior member of the FCD's Nineteenth (So™ emigre) Department and headed a secret Rodina intelligence section.67 Metropolitul Aleksi of Tallinn and Estonia (agent DROZDOV),68 the future Patriarch Aleksil who was made a Rodina council member, told its opening conference, "We are • united by our love for our Socialist motherland." Through its exarchates, dioceses ill parishes in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, the Orthodox Church "continued* maintain spiritual ties with our compatriots" and was "doing its best to keep thai contacts alive and active."69
The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Basic Books, 1999, pp. 497-498
