'000200792 INQUIRE-DOC29D' ITEM NO=00457099 ENVELOPE CDSN - CFS494 MCN - 95038/36894 TOR - 950382121 RATUZYUW RUCWAAA7999 0382118-UUUU--RUEANSS. ZNR UUUUU ZYN HEADER R 072118Z FEB 95 FM FBIS RESTON VA TO RUDKMKB/FBIS LONDON UK//BBC// RUEALGX/DEFINTAGNC'Y WASH DC RUWTAEA/NAIC WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OH//FAS// RUETIAV/MPC FT GEO G MEADE MD RUEAIIS/STORAGE CENTER FBIS RESTON VA ACCT FBWA-EWDK BT CONTROLS UNCLAS 3B/ SERIAL: 954F1183A BODY PASS: ATTN BBC PRESS COPY TO COUNTRY: RUSSIA SUBJ: TAKE 1 OF 2--'ITOGI' ON KORZHAKOV'S ANALYTIC CENTER PAGE:0001 SOURCE: MOSCOW NTV IN RUSSIAN 29 JAN 95 TEXT: //((SEGMENT OF NTV'S "ITOGI" PROGRAM ON THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT'S SECURITY SERVICE ANALYTIC CENTER, REPORTED BY NTV CORRESPONDENTS MARIANNA MAKSIMOVSKAYA, ROMAN MIKHALENKO, AND STANISLAV PLOTNIKOV, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YEVGENIY KISELEV)) ((FBIS TRANSLATED TEXT)) ((KISELEV)) UNDOUBTEDLY THE MAIN SENSATION IN THE JANUARY RATING OF RUSSIA'S LEADING POLITICIANS IS THAT THE SECOND PLACE IN IT WENT TO ALEKSANDR KORZHAKOV, CHIEF OF THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA'S SECURITY SERVICE. ACTUALLY, THIS SENSATION COULD BE PREDICTED, IF WE RECALL HOW GENERAL KORZHAKOV'S RATING HAD BEEN CHANGING OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, BEGINNING FROM THE POINT WHEN IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR--1994--HE BECAME INCREASINGLY ACTIVE ON THE POLITICAL SCENE. IN OCTOBER 1994, IF YOU RECALL, EXPERTS PLACED ALEKSANDR KORZHAKOV SEVENTH ON THE LIST OF THE 10 MOST INFLUENTIAL POLITICIANS IN RUSSIA. NOVEMBER 1994: KORZHAKOV MOVES FROM SEVENTH PLACE TO FO. DECEMBER 1994: GENERAL KORZHAKOV MOVES ONE MORE LINE UP IN TRIS LIST--NOW HE IS THIRD. JANUARY 1995: THE PRESIDENT'S SECURITY SERVICE CHIEF IS RANKED BY EXPERTS SECOND AMONG THE TOP 10 RUSSIAN POLITICIANS. IN OTHER WORDS, EXPERTS RANKED HIM THIRD IN INFLUENCE IN THE COUNTRY AFTER THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME MINISTER. MEANWHILE, ANOTHER NOTEWORTHY EVENT OF THE PAST WEEK, WHICH IS Approved for Release ao i? a.. '000200792 PAGE; 0002 DIFFICULT TO VIEW OUT OF THE CONTEXT OF THE THINGS WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, WAS A MAJOR PUBLIC APPEARANCE--TED: FIRST IN A LONG WHILE--OF MOSCOW MAYOR YURIY LUZHKOV. UNTIL THEN THERE WERE RUMORS THAT THE MAYOR OF MOSCOW FOR WELL-KNOWN REASONS WAS IN DISFAVOR AND PREFERRED NOT TO APPEAR IN PUBLIC, OR AT LEAST NOT TO DISCOURSE PUBLICLY, ESPECIALLY ON POLITICAL TOPICS. AND NOW THE MAYOR STEPS FORWARD, AND-ON TOP OF THAT IMMEDIATELY MAKES SEVERAL STRONG POLITICAL STATEMENTS. MANY ANALYSTS INTERPRETED THIS EVENT AS A SIGN OF THE CHANGING DISPOSITION OF FORCES AMONG THE RUSSIAN POLITICAL ELITE, INSIDE ITS HIGHEST ECHELON. THE SENSATIONAL ARTICLE IN IZVESTIYA ABOUT CERTAIN KREMLIN SHADOW ADVISERS WAS PERCEIVED AS EVIDENCE THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THIS, DEMOCRATIC FORCES ARE REGROUPING AND, HAVING CONSOLIDATED, ARE EMBARKING ON A COUNTER- OFFENSIVE OF SORTS. MORE ON THIS IN THE MATERIAL OF OUR CORRESPONDENT MARIANNA MAKSIMOVSKAYA. ((MAKSIMOVSKAYA)) ON TUESDAY 24 JANUARY, MOSCOW MAYOR LUZHKOV HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE ON VARIOUS PROBLEMS OF THE CAPITAL CITY, WHERE HE QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY LEVELED CRITICISM AT VARIOUS ANALYTICAL STRUCTURES--WHICH HE DID NOT NAME--WHICH FLAGRANTLY INTERFERE IN VARIOUS SPHERES OF POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LIFE. ((LUZHKOV)) SEVERAL SUCH REVIEWS HAVE COME ACROSS MY DESK, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN AN APPARENTLY SCHOLARLY MANNER BUT IN REALITY ATTEMPT TO PRESENT--VERY FALSELY--THE GOVERNMENT OF MOSCOW AS A CERTAIN FINANCIAL-INDUSTRIAL ((GROUP)), WHICH ON TOP OF THIS IS FORMING ITS OWN MUSCLE UNITS, MUSCLE STRUCTURES--APPARENTLY REFERRING TO THE FACT TEAT BANKS--AND FIRST AND FOREMOST THE MOST-BANK-HAVE SECURITY UNITS. THIS IS ALL VERY DANGEROUS. THIS IS DANGEROUS BOTH FOR THE RUSSIAN STATE, AND THE PRESIDENT, AND THE AUTHORITY. I THINK THAT THE ACTION AGAINST THE MOST GROUP WAS ONE OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH PSEUDO-, VULGAR ANALYTIC RESEARCH. ((MAKSIMOVSKAYA)) ON THE SAME DAY, IZVESTIYA PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE ON THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF THE KREMLIN'S SHADOW ADVISERS. THE SUBJECT OF THE ARTICLE BY IZVESTIYA COMMENTATOR VALERIY VYZHUTOVICH IS A MYSTERIOUS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS CENTER, WHICH ALLEGEDLY IS LOCATED, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, A THREE-MINUTE WALK FROM THE KREMLIN AND BELONGS, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR'S INFORMATION, TO THE PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE. THE ARTICLE NAMES THE PRECISE' ADDRESS--S VARVARKA; THE STAFF SIZE--BETWEEN 50 AND 60; AND THE CENTER'S PRODUCTS--FROM THE SO-CALLED "VERSION NO. 1" TO SO-CALLED "ACTIVE ((MEASURES))," THAT IS, FABRICATED MATERIALS THAT FIRST ARE PUBLISHED IN THE PRESS AND THEN USED AS A PRETEXT TO BEGIN SURVEILLANCE, TAPPING, AND OTHER OPERATIONAL MEASURES AGAINST PEOPLE, INCLUDING POLITICIANS. AND FINALLY, THE ARTICLE NAMES THE CENTER'S SUPERVISOR. ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPER'S INFORMATION, HE IS GEORGIY ROG==, DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE, ABOUT WHOM Ti PRESS REPORTED EARLIER THAT AT SOME TIME IN THE PAST HE WORKED Iii TUE EM'S FIFTH DIRECTORATE, WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OPERATIONS AGAINST DISSIDENTS. THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS THAT IT WAS ROGOZIN WHO THERE HEADED THE DEPARTMENT W130SE JOB WAS TO STIR UP SOCIETY'S INTEREST IN ALL SORTS OF FLYING SAUCERS, EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION, AND TELEPATHY, IN ORDER TO DIVERT C00200792 PAGE:0003 THE ATTENTION OF EVERYBODY--ESPECIALLY THE INTELLIGENTSIA--FROM POLITICS. AND NOW, IZVESTIYA REPORTS, GEORGIY ROGOZIN HEADS A WHOLE ANALYTIC DEPARTMENT--AGAIN TOP SECRET. WE, ON OUR PART, ATTEMPTED TO VERIFY THE NEWSPAPER'S INFORMATION AND INQUIRED FIRST OF ALL AT THE PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE. THE SERVICE'S REPRESENTATIVE ANDREY OLIGOV ((AS HEARD)) TOLD US OVER THE TELEPHONE THAT THE SERVICE DOES NOT HAVE ANY'SECRET CENTER; WHAT IT HAS IS SEVERAL ANALYSTS--JUST AS, HE SAID, ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION. SO FAR, WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FIND OUT, EITHER FROM THE PRESIDENT'S SECURITY SERVICE OR FROM HIS STAFF, WHO PRECISELY OCCUPIES THIS BUILDING IN THE STARAYA PLOSHCHAD COMPLEX, ALTHOUGH, AS WE WERE TOLD IN THE SECURITY SERVICE, THERE IS INDEED AN ANALYTIC CENTER HERE, EXCEPT THAT IT DOES NOT BELONG TO THIS SERVICE BUT TO THE RECENTLY. REORGANIZED INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S STAFF. WHATEVER IS LOCATED HERE, HOWEVER, THIS "WHATEVER" UNDOUBTEDLY IS VERY WELL GUARDED. AT LEAST, WHEN JOURNALISTS SHOW UP NEAR THE BUILDING, SECURITY REACTS IMMEDIATELY. ((BEGIN SCENE WITH A SECURITY MAN)) ((MAKSIMOVSICAYA)) FILMING IS NOT FORBIDDEN? ((SECURITY MAN)) NO, IT IS NOT FORBIDDEN. ((MAKSIMOVSKAYA)) WHY DO YOU ASK ME THEN? ((SECURITY MAN)) IT IS OF INTEREST TO US. ((MAKSIMOVSKAYA)) WHY IS IT OF INTEREST TO YOU? ((SECURITY MAN)) FOR THE PURPOSE OF OUR SECURITY. YOU ARE NOT PRIVY TO EVERYTHING--WHAT IS PERMITTED AND WHAT IS NOT. AFTER ALL, NOT EVERY PLACE HAS POSTED SIGNS--WHERE IS PERMITTED AND WHERE NOT. THERE ARE NO SUCH SIGNS ANYWHERE ANYWAY EXCEPT MUSEUMS, WHICH TELL YOU WHAT YOU MAY TAKE PICTURES OF AND WHAT YOU MAY NOT, AND WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR. ADMIN: (MORE) BT UNCLASSIFIED