KGB tried to hook head of “BPF Youth”

• 16.12.2009, 13:13

An officer of the State Security Committee (KGB) asked Andrei Krachko about his political activity and offered to “help“ the KGB.

A district militia officer called Andrei Krachko, the leader of “BPF Youth” in the morning on December 14 and offered to meet on the matter of the passport the oppositionist had lost, Radio Svaboda reports.

When the youth activist came to a militia department, he met there the district militia officer and a KGB officer.

“The militiamen left the room, and the man in mufti said I had been invited to discuss the matter with my passport. He said he had received documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I must tell him how I had lost my passport. I asked whom I was talking with. He answered he was a KGB officer. He also introduced himself,” Andrei Krachko said.

After a short conversation about the passport, the KGB officer began to speak about political activity of the “BPF Youth” leader. According to Andrei Krachko, the KGB officer asked him about the recent trips abroad and tried to libel against some activists. Then he threatened Krachko would face problems over the lost passport.

“He said in a short conversation: ‘I want to help you, but you should help me, too.’ I asked if he was going to offer me collaboration with the KGB, but he laughed in response and said what I knew about the KGB was not true. He said he just wanted to give advice to me in order I could change my views. He promised he wouldn’t tell anyone about the meeting. But I noted I couldn’t promise the same. He said I had time by the end of the year to think over his proposal and then noted we would meet “under other circumstances”. I said good bye and went away,” Andrei Krachko said.