Mykola Hlushchenko. A Painter Sealed As a soviet Agent
10/8/2024
His life was full of dramatic twists of fate and mysteries. In correspondence with the Center, he was “Artist”, – after the title of the operational case against him, and “Yarema”– that was his agent codename. The official, visible part of working with him was maintaining ordinary ties with the soviet diplomatic mission in France on the basis of fulfilling artistic orders. The invisible, hidden part of his activity was to provide information about emigration representatives who were of interest to soviet intelligence and with whom he from time would meet in France and other countries. Declassified archival documents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine unfold only some secret pages of the life of the artist Mykola Hlushchenko.
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