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The April 1992 issue of the Russian
newspaper Argumenty i Fakty printed excerpts from a KGB document on funding
of active measures operations in India, one of the areas in which the KGB
was most active, particularly in the active measures realm. The document
stated:
In accordance with a decision of
the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR KGB allocates funds annually for extension
of financial aid to controlled organs of the press, public organizations,
and individual public figures of India, whose possibilities are utilized
for operations and influence in accordance with state interests of the
Soviet Union. The 320,000 foreign currency rubles allocated for the indicated
purpose in 1985 have been spent. In order to support special operations
and measures on consolidation of the results of the official visit by Prime
Minister R. Gandhi to the Soviet Union, the KGB requests allocation of
320,000 foreign currency rubles for 1986. Drafts of the decree of the CPSU
Central Committee and the order to the USSR Council of Ministers are attached.
Please study.
[signed] V. Chebrikov, committee
chairman
Argumenty i Fakty noted that, "in
accordance with this letter funds were appropriated," according to a December
20, 1985 CPSU Central Committee decree and an order of the USSR Council
of Ministers on the same day.