The Reputation Of Intelligence And Counterintelligence (KGB)

Yet there are many things that at first held Zaitzev back from defecting; those things also kept many of his countrymen from doing what he is doing now. There is, of course, the reputation of the KGB, the most feared, ruthless, and savage “security agency”, as it was technically called. In reality, its main roles are intelligence and counterintelligence. As good as the KGB is at intelligence, its primary role, its capacity for counterintelligence is renowned. Any half-decent intelligence agency knows that an aptitude for counterintelligence is as, if not more important than having intelligence capabilities. Conversely, if a government does not care that the enemy can anticipate, defend against, and counter your every move, then it is completely …show more content…
Contrary to its reputation, it has been quite a long time since the KGB did an assassination in a foreign state for minor matters. Conversely, their brutality extends inwards towards their own. In the U.S., if one was caught reporting to the KGB, he or she would probably be fired and maybe tried in a court of law with a state-supplied attorney who has an obligation to defend the traitor. In Russia the trial will be, in almost all cases, purely ceremonial, and the penalty will be pretty much set long before the trial even starts. The concrete realities of the intelligence business, which are obvious to Zaitzev due to the fact that he works for the KGB’s communications department, are not the only things that nearly held him back. His own feelings added a lot of time and consideration when he weighed his options over those three very long days. When all is said and done, Oleg Ivanovich Zaitzev is still a Russian native. This is his motherland, a concept infused in his being from more than just the propaganda always displayed on TV. America, however opportunistic and amazing and intriguing it may seem, is just another foreign country. Could he …show more content…
Defecting to the United States of America would mean becoming a hated traitor in his homeland, and if he never fits in America, then he would simply no longer retain a true loving home. But ultimately, his feelings only delayed, never belayed, his thought process, for it was his feelings that caused him to make this decision in the first