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Colonel Vladimir Kravchenko was the first head of the KGB Press Bureau.
Was Kravchenko's only book "Under the Name of Schmidhen" published in 1970 (see below) based on an intentional historical falsification?
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Was Kravchenko's only book "Under the Name of Schmidhen" published in 1970 (see below) based on an intentional historical falsification?
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In his book, Kravchenko claimed that Ian Buikis was the real name of the Cheka agent Schmidhen who played a significant role in the sting counterintelligence operation against the British envoy Bruce Lockhart & his associates in Russia in 1918.
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Kravchenko stated that his claim was based on the Cheka archival documents & on interviews with Buikis who was still alive in the late 1960s.
Kravchenko's version of the events was widely repeated in the subsequent scholarship about the operation.
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Kravchenko's version of the events was widely repeated in the subsequent scholarship about the operation.
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