Don former KGB agents have blood on their hands?
The government makes no such allegation in Lennikov’s case. It accepts that he started out doing translations (he speaks Japanese) and that, while he did later spy on Japanese contacts, he received no espionage training and quit in 1988, three years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He says he joined reluctantly when recruited in 1982, fearing the consequences of saying no to the all-powerful secret police. The government disputes this, saying that the KGB was a sought-after place to work in Soviet Russia.
