ABSTRACT
Document Twenty is a minute of the address of the principal KGB delegate to a meeting of representatives of the directorates of the Soviet Bloc security services responsible for the security of the economy. The KGB officer in question was Lieutenant-General Fyodor Shcherbak, who led the delegation sent by the responsible KGB department, the Sixth Directorate (it was charged with ‘Economic Counter-intelligence and Industrial Security’). Shcherbak had previously been deputy head of the Second Chief Directorate, the directorate principally responsible for internal security within the USSR. The Sixth Directorate was its little brother. Ironically, given his strong condemnation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in this minute, when glasnost reached the KGB in 1989, he was one of the offcers sent by the Chairman, Vladimir Kryuchkov, to discuss counter-terrorist operations with former CIA officers 1 The minute was made by the Sixth Directorate’s East German counterpart, Main Department 18 (Hauptabteilung XVIII) of the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) Ministry of State Security ( Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, or MfS), and is held in the MfS archive. It is written in a rather clumsy secret police form of German and is partly in note form.
