5 Dastardly KGB Operations
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Uncover the bizarre world of KGB operations in our latest video! From seductive spies to a deadly umbrella, discover 5 weird and dastardly missions that shaped the Cold War. Watch now!
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You’d think a “swallow” would be easy to spot when Randy from CIA accounting is bringing his super model girlfriend to the company Christmas party.
He's got a great personality, maybe some nuclear codes😅
They didn't use all super hot, supermodel types though. They used just hot enough types, like 8/10s. I've seen some pictures and I was like "Really? they gave up secrets for that?".
Also from what I have heard something like 80%-90% of the Russian porn industry are all paid by KGB. If you give them intel in Ukraine one of the payoffs is a night with any russian doll you want.
LOL, exactly. But simps rarely know that they're simps until it's waaay too late. The irony here would be that "agents" were somehow untrained for recognizing the obvious tells. Either that, or the women were taught VERY, very well, and worked their ways into a dude's life via some far more tangential methods. I could see how a chick could be taught to start off as "homely"--all "wounded bird" and shizz. Then, she could stage a way for the simp to be "the hero" and run off a fake abü$3r (an actor or operative). From then onward, she'd have him in her clutches! #MyHero! 😂
Head of CIA to employees
"Sorry fellas, you can't date anyone above a 6".
@@akidmyself4053luckily for Stan he and Francine are married, not dating.
Eric Durschmied wrote in his autobiography, that he was trapped on a visit to Russia. He met a young woman in the GUM store. She came onto him and they ended up back at his hotel room. A the high point of their time together, the door to the room suddenly flew open and a man with a camera took a photo of them in flagrante delecto. He said he kept his composure and just turned to the KGB man next to the camera man and asked if he could have an extra copy for his wife's lawyer, as he was getting divorced. He never heard anything else about it.
That’s some return of serve. Respect.
I used a similar tactic when I was a teen about to be mugged by 5 guys in Sydney. Knowing I was fucked, I got inspired by bravado and walked right into the middle of them, bold as brass, asking if anyone had $2 for the train. The drunkest guy prepared to have a go at me when his mate slapped him in the chest and said “Man… he’s asking YOU for money”. I got no coin but walked away safe with a chuckle and a story :)
my main of course this happens in Australia@@mathewhale3581
@@mathewhale3581brilliant!! Nice one!!
8g
this worked.......in 1955. it doesn't work any more. or shouldn't. the guy could have been caught with a GUY and he'd not be held liable! or an "it!. or...
It feels like operation Pandora is running stronger than ever now ;)
Thought the same.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Sexpionage
4:25 - Chapter 2 - Bugging the US embassy
7:20 - Chapter 3 - Operation infektion
10:25 - Chapter 4 - The assassination of georgi markov
13:05 - Chapter 5 - Operation pandora
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Hey fam, you dropped this 👑
🤔 9:34 WTF!
I’m a pretty low clearance soldier in the swedish army, and even we get training in how to be sufficiently paranoid about both our activity online, and how foreign powers (especially Russia) works to gain assets and piece together puzzles.
They can do very long cons if you are important. By the time they have your weak spots and start applying pressure, you’re already close friends or even married to the agent. Don’t talk to strangers about what you do on your job, and shut them down if they bring it up.
Isn't there a saying "if you want a General as a husband, marry the private "?
Im about to join the swedish army next year as a skyttegruppchef, got any tips?
@@hherpdderp Never heard, but that’s true for foreign intelligence officers, they see potential, and select their targets, and can play a long game. Doesn’t have to be military, could be industrial. That’s why before getting hired as professional soldier (sweden mostly have a conscript army), you have to pass a security interview where you disclose your family life, your economic status, and get assessed whether you have any ”weak points” that could make you a target for foreign intelligence.
For example, the other year an engineer was groomed into selling industry information to Russia, and his weakness was that he was in debt. The grooming started as a friendship with an agent, and it seems like even as they did this throught the period of 2 years, they were good friends and cordial with each other.
@@David-vz4ykthe best advice for anyone joining the military is to not overthink this shit. You'll learn what you need to learn. You don't need to do any super special preparations or anything like that. Your basic training will prepare you for service. Just keep yourself healthy and fit and you'll do fine as long as you really want to. If you're not sure if you really want to it will probably not be for you. Don't try to cheat, be an honest man and be willing to learn. Good luck.
@@David-vz4ykBe firm but responsitive to the squad you get. You work best if you build a camaraderie where you are not just a boss, but a person that everyone likes, but still always has the last word.
If you saw Band of Brothers, be like Lt Winters, not Cpt Sobel.
Squad leaders don't carry heavy loads, machine guns or grg, but may have to run around quite a bit once the battle starts, to make themselves heard or seen, and lead the squad properly. With armor and with weapon, it can be tiring, exhausting. So do a lot of running, even during GU you can squeeze in low intensity sessions even though you are tired. If you can do a 10km run under 50 minutes, you are definitely doing more than what is expected of a conscript in that role.
Edit; I wish you luck. It is extra difficult to be a squad leader, I did it myself as a sharpshooter. As a squad leader, you get lessons in leadership and group dynamics that few young people get, and that is both useful in the civilian world, and meritorious if you want to take up employment in FM after the training. Go for it!
So, I used to work for the DIA (like the CIA, but only for those that ate paint chips as children). In the standard read-on brief, the briefer reminded us that if you were at a bar and a hot blonde Russian girl was interested in you, then forget it. But...that's exactly how I met my hot, blonde Russian wife a mere 6 months or so before that brief haha. That was almost 10 years ago though; she's still here, and that job isn't.
Russia is still doing stuff like that.Today they don't call it the KGB but outfits like the FSB contain the same cast of characters. Sewing division and chaos is still the tactic of choice.
Between your assortment of channels I watch more of Simon than any other media source per day. Learn a lot more too!
Who cares about the MCU when we can have the Whistlerverse, AM I RIGHT PETER?!?! :D
Legend has it when Indonesia's Sukarno was confronted by the KGB with compromising photos he asked for more copies 😂
Spy fail
That's not a legend, but documented fact. While the reaction of the KGB isn't officially recorded, I wish there was video of that meeting!
Simon’s channels are perfect for someone hungry for knowledge and facts as me 😂 love what’s he’s doing, very interesting to watch it all
Bro Operation Pandora is going to plan way better than The Soviet Union or Russia could have ever predicted!
Thanks to the republican party since reagan
You should do a full episode the aids story! This was actually the first time I've heard it. It doesn't seems to be a big one in America lol I'm pretty sure it was something we covered in a science or biology class when we were talking about viruses and bacteria and diseases and stuff like that. I think it would be a good one. Though it might be better suited for Into the Shadows or Decoding The Unknown more then Sideprojects
Our government 🇿🇦 said we can cure AIDS with beetroot, garlic, ....
Anything else because they didn't want to spend the money on retrovirals 🚮🇿🇦
We have free healthcare (sort of) 😊🇿🇦
The HIV/AIDS crisis truly was that when it first appeared in the west in the early 1980s. A mystery disease killing mostly homosexual men at the start but soon was killing men, women and children. It contaminated blood banks worldwide, leading to bans on some groups of people donating even up to today. It's not treated with the respect it deserves nowadays due to nearly 40 years of medical research and the huge leap in anti viral drugs.
There was a lot of misinformation in the media about HIV and AIDS in the mid 80s to early 90s, ranging from various preachers saying _"It's punishing
Actually just watched a video on it from another creator. He said it ended when the aids epidemic reached the Soviet union and the Soviet medical researchers asked for research data on the disease that the us refused due to said operation. The Soviet researchers were forced to counter the kgb and faults in the fake research
Knowing SW he could put it on all 3 chs (or more) and spin it so we would not even be bored watching all of them back to back.
Certainly interesting. If you have ever seen the presentations by Yuri Bezmenov (KGB defector), he said about 85% of the KGB operations were subversion, and the other 15% the typical "spy" stuff. All KGB trainees were thoroughly versed in Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. And they were masters at it.
It's far easier to subjugate an enemy when you convince them to do it themselves.
@@Plaprad 100% mate👍
Except Putin I guess lol, of all people
@@alexseguin5245 an interesting observation mate🙂
@@alexseguin5245 It really depends on what they actually wanted to achieve. Maybe I give them too much credit, but KGB seemed to have always plans within plans and you didn't know exactly what they wanted to do with a certain operation.
The listening device buried inside the seal can still be seen today in the CIAs museum, not so affectionately known forever as "The thing".
That stuff about "swallows" and "ravens" is a widely used practice known as "honey traps". It's not really as weird as the video makes it out to be. Some agents even goes as far as marrying their targets, to not only learn secret information, but also to gain influence over people in high positions, including their spouse, for the sake of the nation they're spying for.
As for the recording device, it would depend on if they were allowed to check out the insides of it by whoever was in charge, and how they conducted their search protocols. It would be an insult to leave markings of damaging it right after receiving it as a diplomatic "gift", after all. So if they couldn't do it discreetly, then it would be up to someone to decide if they should take that chance or not.
X-ray machines existed, can’t fathom why they didn’t X-ray the thing immediately
@@repatch43 Very good point, didn't cross my mind that they could've done that. It's still a question whether or not that was part of their protocols though, or if they even thought they could use it for that.
@@Joppi1992 I can only assume it wasn't part of their protocols, which just boggles the mind. I think it's indicative of how good the soviets were at making you think you could trust them.
@@repatch43 I didn't know that x-ray machines were a thing back then, but when you said it I looked it up. But it turns out x-ray machines didn't become a thing for airport security until the 1970s, and even then it wasn't exactly a strict protocol to be using them all the time like it is now. (A lot of the searches were still carried out by hand, faulty equipment took a long time to be fixed, so on and so forth. We all know what that led to, but hijacking airplanes were surprisingly common back then which is what led to the implementation of x-ray machines in airports to begin with.)
So considering the time period of when it happened, I wonder if it might just be that it wasn't a matter of trust or not (the tensions were high back then after all) and that it was just that x-ray machines weren't really thought of as that useful for security?
Anyway, it's a pretty good example of how spying is always a concern for everyone. Because everyone is always trying to find new ways to spy.
I read a very detailed breakdown on the radio device used in the seal and it was, in fact, extremely clever. Could it have been found sooner if they had considered that the gift may have been bugged? yeah, probably, but the device was also pretty genius by the looks of things
Very interesting, thanks!
Anyone interested in such things should read Ernest Volkman’s book on the subject. There are plenty of fascinating stories - all basically true - from the NKVD’s _’Operation Trust’,_ right up to the close of the Cold War. Also worth reading is _’Spies Beneath Berlin’._
I think the highlight of Volkman’s book is the story about the Chinese woman running a newspaper kiosk in West Berlin while married to an East German agent. There are so many twists to that story it becomes laugh out loud funny, remembering, of course, that they were at risk of their lives.
Awesome! More KGB stuff please!
Watch the movie 'RED SPARROW' with Jennifer Lawrence, ans 'SALT' with Angela Jolie. 'BLACK WIDOW' with Scarlett Johansson is great also. All very-VERY close to real world stuff!!!!
Great video, ...but you need to start your own Biography type channel, miss you on Biographics since your departure, one of my favorite channels......
It would be interesting to know what operations are still classified and what the KGB "got away with ". For every "Cambridge Five" type success, how many were unknown to Western Intelligence?
... or perhaps "How many that were known of by western intelligence worked anyway".
Intelligence outfits often have the problem of protecting sources and methods and thus can't tell what they know to the public. We will likely never know how much of the disinformation that is about is really an operation from the new version of the KGB.
Trump & Maga GOP.
"There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." - Kevin McCarthy
@@stefanschleps8758 Hillary Clinton and the DNC
The KGB sowed the seeds of the moon landing hoax nonsense. Not Soviet scientists or cosmonauts. The KGB.
Given how some of these agents look, id sell out king and country knowingly 😂😂
LOVE a good ol fashioned KGB video! They're too neglected these days when, with that being where Putin was bred from, it seems so pertinent and topical. Great job!
That operation "pandora" excessively pertinent. Basically the playbook for current Russian digital disinformation operations right now.
@@Thomas...191 Very true . . . the KGB's influence on the social strife of the late '60s has never been exposed all that well, and therefore taking it into the digital realm was an obvious choice.
the Richard Sorge story is very interesting. There have been a couple of movies made. Imagine a Russian spy working in the German Embassy in Tokyo in WW2.
Sorge predicted and tried to warn about the OPERATION BARBAROSSA {invasion of the USSR by Germany} and the attack on Pearl Harbor, but NO-one wanted to believe him.
BTW that umbrella stuff inspired the 1980s French comedy Le coup du parapluie - IMO still works even after 40+ years :)
The woman in the thumbnail looks like a stereotypical KGB agent😂. I think I’d know I was being “honey trapped”
You KNOW you're in trouble when a girl looks like Cate Archer from NOLF2, lol. 😂
I am so unimportant and know so little that I never have to worry about a Honey Trap.
DAM IT!!!!!!!!😂😂😂
This was an interesting peek behind the Iron Curtain!
I remember when I was young and watching "Quincy M.E." with my parents when one of the episodes had a murder that happened similarly to the Georgi Markov one. I hadn't known it was an actual murder they based it on, but young me was paranoid about umbrellas for a number of months following seeing that.
There’s also a NCIS episode with a similar murder: Obsession (s7, e21)
The seal bug was probably checked for active bugs many times but passive bugs were very new at the time and can still be hard to find today sometimes.
Pretty good. Some of this sounds familiar, but still intriguing regardless. As usual, our host maintains a fast pace, and it's all to easy to miss key comments.
7:14 I mean, it wasn’t an active bug - other reports say the housekeeping staff(?) noticed radio interference. I’m sure the Americans assumed it was bugged, but let it go when there were no batteries or active microphones detected.
We have a phenomenon called Default To Truth. It's important to remember when looking at history that we only recently became aware of this phenomenon and developed ways to train around it.
“… bringing Operation Pandora to an end.”
*looks at current events*
Or did it..?
Its been said: "Keep your friends close, and your enemys closer..."
Swallows? Maiden name Spitz.
And the first guy they talk about... Yakov. 😂
That's why they work in KGB, they swallow
Name the movie!!!!!!!!
The spy who shagged me.
@@somedude2124Austin Powers 2 or 3?
Project pandora is still going on to this day, you just have to open your eyes and look around
Gee, I think they've got Operation Pandora part two working on us right now...
Operation Pan Dora been going on since 2014...when a secret server was backed up illegally in a *target/victims name.
I have the two books based on that defector mentioned at the end and they make for very interesting and chilling reading.
"Operation Pandora" is still ongoing and has been immensely successful.
Quite right and it isn't even subtle.
How do you research this stuff?
“ Operation Pandora was a failure … “
Have you ever been to the United States , or even seen it on TV ???
Seems like operation pandora is working quite well, if you look at what going on now in the U.S.
It looks like they missed all of those in academia..( teachers union, college professors, .etc)
The BEST Double Agents don't know they are........
I do love this channel for its interesting and wacky knowledge.
I do find it hilarious this video was in my recommendations section said In Deep Geek watchers watch this channel. In Deep Geek channel covers fantasy in books, TV and movies.
I remember cartoons Rocky and Bullwinkle, and KGB Natasha and Boris
I don't know how much inspiration you and your team take from the comments on your various channels, but I suggested you look into the KGB "Swallows" in another comments section roughly a week ago. I suspect this was recorded long before then so it's a h**l of a coincidence. Thanks either way, Daisy.
that is NOT the "British" pronunciation of ALUMNI , Simon is just a silky-smothbrain
Judging from the current state of the US, Pandora at least was an unqualified success.
Operation Pandora has all the hallmarks of the sudden rise ofBLM operations. Makes one wonder.
Very nice but can you a video on operation foot I won't say anything more.
Not sure that honey traps count as weird. That trick is as old as espionage.
The video didn’t mention one odd footnote to the story of the bug in the Great Seal: the device was invented by Leon Theremin, who is better remembered for inventing the musical instrument that makes the electronic wailing noises in the soundtracks of SF movies from*Forbidden Planet* to *Loki*.
Clayton Lonetree had fellow Marines volunteer by the dozens at least for his firing squad.
I first heard about Clayton Lonetree reading the book Moscow Station.
lmao.."swallows" huh? Fitting.🐦
And all of these operations are still ongoing to this day.
We sure Operation Pandora actually ended?
We are sure it didn't
Of course 'Yakoff' would've manifested a top secret spynet harem.
The radio bug was designed by Theremin, who invented the musical instrument that carries his name. Theremin is worth his own podcast. e.g. he was Russian living in New York then was kidnapped by the KGB to do military electronics in Russia. The Theremin is played in the song "Good Vibrations".
I'd love to see the result of taking scripts like this one and making Brain Blaze videos with them.
6:50 there is a possibility that they found it quickly but decided to leave it there to feed misinformation to the KGB
1:57 Alumini?
Think Simon’s on auto again.
@01:46 - In my eastern german home region it's still not uncommon to see streets named in honour of Richard Sorge.
3:32 Have to admit I’m curious to know if the officials they turned were blackmailed or willing participants.
Some of these sound concerningly familiar to modern day events.
we exist in a society at doesnt actually change as much as people say it does. for every "there werent these things back in the good old days!" theres hobos camped on the white house lawn, or riots in the street so bad the army got called in.
russian intelligence (the FSB) is still trying to carry out Operation pandora
They are not just trying to carry out operations. They are doing it.
They don't need to try any more. They've probably already packed their bags and gone home. American's have reached a point where they can continue the operation on their own
Нам не нужна и дальше проводить ее, вы сами за нас выполните всю работу
Sukarno, LOL. You should tell that story. His response is priceless.
Went far right into our houses of government today.
The Embassy bug was not a passive bug, it was genius art. It wad acoustic wood mechanism. Which would turn voice in to low frequency waves which the second device could pick up, the distance was line 100m only. US checked that thing in and out no metal or electronic devices were found because there were none.
Operation Pandora ain't over
The Soviets invented the pickup artist for spying purposes. Didn't see that coming.
Sex for secrets is an old game. What makes you believe the CIA wasn't the first and just as familiar with using this spy tactic?
one has to wonder what they are up to now...
I was told to say thank you, and that was very enjoyable. Any chance of extra copies, one of myself and one of my boss? so we can update her file.
Or let them think they got you and ASAP report to Boss, and then a great game is played. PS you can also ask for her phone number just piss them off.
Damn that thumbnail. ❤❤❤❤❤
Regarding the Great Seal Bug, I can actually state that options #1 & #2 you offered are not exactly correct either. It's actually a mix of both.
They realized they were bugged for years and knew that some other leak was happening. In my research a few years back studying the technology and the events behind this, the US looked all over.
The embassy was emptied out repeatedly by staff and specialists sent in to find the bug. They did this repeatedly from room to room and even tore out walls. Then just couldn't find anything they expected and would implement themselves.
So why did this evade them? Well one thing is, device didn't activate with any equipment. Second thing is that they did inspect it but they didn't realize it had a cavity and didn't want to tear apart someones personal political gift. Though in hindsight it should be the first thing you tear open after repeated Intel breeches.
If it wasn't for an outside British source discovering the frequency and giving it to the Americans, they would not have tracked down the source. Only by emitting the exact specific frequency of what the device was tuned to activate did it finally activate and get picked up by a final bug search.
It was pretty ingenious since the receiver was literally across the street from that officials office. The success led to an amazing assortment of Soviet bugging technologies that we still don't know the full extent of proliferation.
There's also been speculation that the CIA did figure out where the bug was, but purposely left it there to feed the KGB false intelligence.
Thank you, it was much deeper than option 1 or 2. I, like you and others have already studied/read this.
And you still see it happening. I wonder who Putin has under his control with these methods.
Knock knock...
Whos there???
This is the KGB WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!!!
DOOR SMASH :D :D :D
Sometimes it's really hard to follow everything this guy says.
At 9:34 did you channel your inner Monty Python or did a parrot chime in?
I am sure many countries are using these methods in the UK as we speak. The UK probably is as well in other countries.
You would be amazed how gullible business leaders, senior public officials, and politicians are. I work with them.
IIRC, “the thing” was designed by Leon Theremin (who invented the Theremin obv)
Are we sure it failed ??
I mean former KGB agent sitting on the top of current Russia .
Buddy to a certian former leader .
Even openly admitted to being a huge fan of said KGB agent.
Was in New York area in late 60s and 70s .
Was accused several times of inciting racial tensions .
Just asking ??
During the 1970s and 80s the Cold War was raging. During a certain period, we allowed the local girls to come in unescorted to fill the clubs. This was especially true in the UK. Many reports were made of girls asking strange questions, and often times the Intel folks would tell you to keep the relationship going if able. Probably as many times as it was a Russian Agent, it was a local girl with an inquiring mind…usually with a future in the US. One girl actually told my wife, “A girl gotta know what she is getting into mate”…. Lakenheath, Alconbury, Upper Heyford, Bentwaters, WoodBridge, all had clubs and also aircraft. If the Soviets ignored this potential intelligence coup they were not smart.
The Stassi attempted to honey pot an American journalist in an attempt to blackmail him. When confronted with evidence of the night, the man confounded the Stassi by treating it as a catalog and requesting copies of individual photos.
oh god umbrella one again
How many channels does he have
He pops up everywhere
how the mighty have fallen, nowadays any window will do.
They will do anything 😂
Did you say Buggering the Embassy?
Not spying. It was a "special undercover operation."
So I guess James Bond films were not totally off the rails in how they portrayed the KGB.
I would be interesting to know what the CIA did in the mean time. Perhaps charity work?
The Great Seal did not have a recording device in it.
Everyone going on about the 'dastardly' KGB, when they make up around .1% of such ops next to the US, Britain, Israel, China, etc.
ikr i agree except china is based
Ah.. the Whistler knows..
US & UK Top Gun & 007 are only in movies ~~ It was not KGB but infact it was JDL
Didn't the Indonesian guy ask for.the tapes so he could show them off to his friend?
Be VERY skeptical of any Indian news agency
This reminds me of the joke about the Soviets inventing "micro-concrete" - a layer of concrete, a layer of microphones, a layer of concrete, a layer of microphones, ...
9:34 😦
Swallows? A bit unfortunate really.
I love that the women were named swallow