Head of the section at the Department
A.A. Shabunin
Verified. Senior Investigator of the
Investigation Department at the MB RF,
Captain of Justice
Victor A. Shkarin
Annex 21
Top Secret
Copy 1
STATE RUSSIAN SCIENCE RESEARCH
INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
To A.A. Shabunin,
Head of the section of the
Investigation Department at the
RF Ministry of Security
Moscow
November 24, 1992
N 1846 ss
In response to your inquiry N 6/2835 of November 12, 1992 we inform you that the information that Vil S. Mirzayanov, a former employee of the institute, included in his article “Poisoned Policies” about the scientific research work conducted at GRNIIOKhT aimed at the development of chemical weapons, is authentic.
Work on the creation of a new chemical agent was referred to in the above-mentioned article as follows: “The State Science Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology (GRNIIOKhT) developed a new chemical agent. It significantly surpassed the well known VX by its toxicity (“battle characteristics”) from which it is practically impossible to be cured…”, and was developed at GRNIIOKhT in pursuance to Resolution N 3509-123 dated April 24, 1977 by the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. and the Council of Ministers.
Also, the information that Mirzayanov reveals in the same article about the development of binary weapons at GRNIIOKhT: “…binary weapons were developed based on a new chemical agent” is true. Work on the creation of a binary weapon was carried out at GRNIIOKhT, in pursuance to Resolutions N 1584-434 of December 31, 1986 and N 844—186 of October 6, 1989 by the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. and the Council of Ministers.
Mirzayanov knew this information through reading classified documents, participation in closed meetings, etc., in keeping with his functional duties first as Senior Research Scientist at Laboratory 29 and since 1986 as the head of the branch Department Foreign Technical Counterintelligence.
We are sending you Mirzayanov’s personal files which include his character references.
Attachment: the personal file of V. S. Mirzayanov
N 10650 on 131 pages, non-confidential, to the addressee only
Deputy Director
A.V. Martynov
Annex 22
Top Secret
Copy N 1
THE MINISTRY OF SECURITY
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Investigation Department
To Lieutenant General V.N. Zemlyanitsyn,
Head of the 8th Department at the
General Staff Headquarters of the Armed Forces
of the Russian Federation
The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation is investigating criminal case # 62, regarding Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov for disclosing information to the mass media about scientific research in the area of chemical weapons.
An expert commission was appointed to determine the authenticity and degree of secrecy of the information divulged by Mirzayanov. The 8th Department at the General Staff Headquarters of the RF Armed Forces is entrusted with conducting the expertise.
We are sending the resolution dated November 10, 1992 and ask you to take charge of the expert investigation.
Appendix: -resolution dated November 10, 1992 on 6 pages, not classified
-package with the objects of research, top secret
Head of the Department,
Major General of Justice
S.D. Balashov
Annex 23
Top Secret
THE RF MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
GENERAL STAFF HEADQUARTERS
OF THE ARMED FORCES
8th Department
To Major General S.D. Balashov,
Head of the Investigation Department,
of the Ministry of Security
of the Russian Federation
Moscow
December 8, 1992
N 317/5/836
Moscow K-160
In Response to the letter N 6/003088 from December 1, 1992
After the 8th Department at the General Staff Headquarters of the RF Intelligence Service was re-organized, there were no specialists left who had access to [classified] works and documents on the indicated topic and who could, according to their area of specialty, evaluate the authenticity of the information presented in the materials produced, and for this reason the department can’t act as an expert enterprise for conducting the expertise on this criminal case.
ACTING HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
Colonel
G.I. Funygin
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Copy N 2
THE MINISTRY OF SECURITY
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Investigation Department
To E.M. Primakov,
Director of the Russian Foreign
Intelligence Service
of the Russian Federation
December 10, 1992 N 6/03240
The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation is investigating the criminal case of the former employee of the State Russian Science Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, Vil Sultanovich Mirzayanov, who was disclosing information about scientific research in the area of chemical weapons to the mass media.
An expert commission was appointed for determining the authenticity and degree of secrecy of the information divulged by Mirzayanov.
The accused Mirzayanov wrote a petition asking to include Reserve Major General Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, a former employee of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, in the expert commission.
In connection with this, please inform us if job responsibilities of O. D. Kalugin entailed any kind of involvement with scientific research in the area of chemical weapons. Is he a specialist in the technology of special substances or the protection of secrets in the area of scientific research aimed at the development of chemical weapons?
Head of the Department,
Major General
S.D. Balashov
Annex 25
Secret
Copy 1.
OFFICE OF THE FOREIGN
INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
To Major General S.D. Balashov,
Head of the Investigation Department
of the Ministry of Security of Russia
December 17, 1992 N 153/5-13265
In response to N 6/03240 of December 10, 1992
Oleg Danilovich Kalugin, was born in 1934, has a higher humanitarian education, and has served in the Foreign Intelligence Services as a soldier and commander from 1958 until 1979. He was working in political intelligence, counterintelligence and supporting individuals and institutions abroad. His job responsibilities didn’t entail any kind of involvement with scientific research in the sphere of chemical weapons.
Deputy Director of the RF SVR [Foreign Intelligence Service]
of the Russian Federation