14 januar, 2007

Tidligere top-agent for KGB afsløret i Danmark

Fra dagens JP:

Journalist Jørgen Dragsdahl var agent for Sovjetunionens efterretningstjeneste, KGB, i 1970erne og 1980erne. Så værdifuld på den anden side af jerntæppet, at KGBs hovedkvarter i Moskva kaldte Dragsdahl for nr. 1 i Danmark.

Det er historikeren, professor ved Syddansk Universitet Bent Jensens konklusion, efter at han som den første har haft adgang til dokumenter om Dragsdahl-sagen i PETs arkiver.

Den tidligere KGB-agent har selvfølgelig de dårlige forklaringer klar:

I et interview med Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten erkender Dragsdahl at have været i kompromitterende kontakt med KGB-agenter i årene 1982-1984. Men formålet var alene et forsøg på at få Dragsdahls daværende hustru, som var sovjetborger, ud af landet.

Selve det arbejde, Dragsdahl udførte for KGB bestod mest i at udøve indflydelse på den offentlige opinion ved at plante KGB´s idéer i folks hoveder. Herom kunne Oleg Gordijevskij, en KGB-agent der i to omgange var stationeret i Danmark berette:

Evening after evening Chebotok and Lyubimov sat and talked about what they should feed him the next time, what ideas they should give him. The problem was precisely that Dragsdahl did not swallow all the propaganda. He had his own viewpoints and sometimes he rejected the KGB's ideas because he thought they were too primitive. He was very creative himself.

It was precisely that that made him so useful and so loved. If Chebotok and Lyubimov had given him 4 or 5 arguments for the next article on a particular subject, they were surprised when they read it. Lyubimov would say, "It's extraordinary. We gave him only 4 or 5 ideas, but he's written 10 things which are as if they had come out of our mouths. He's better at it than we ourselves are."

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