FSB declassifies report on security measures in preparation for Yalta conference

Employees of the FSB directorate in Crimea have made public documents on the work of state security agencies for the 80th anniversary of the Yalta conference held in February 1945. On February 11, the department published copies of the reports of the counterintelligence service "Smersh", which are at the disposal of "Izvestiya".

The reports are devoted to the security measures taken at the meeting of the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition. It follows from the document that in January and February 1945 security forces detained three agents of German and Romanian intelligence and identified three agents outside the peninsula. The detainees were arrested.

Eighty-three people who had arrived in the republic to fulfill a special assignment to ensure the security of the conference were suspected of having ties with the nationalists. During the operation "Valley" 1.2 thousand employees of state security bodies, NKVD troops and a motorcycle detachment of 120 people were involved.

Law enforcers checked more than 67 thousand people and arrested 197, including agents of German and Romanian intelligence.

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Earlier, February 9, the scientific director of the archive, Andrei Sorokin, said that the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History keeps an album, which for Joseph Stalin on the results of the Yalta Conference prepared by photo correspondent of "Izvestia" Samariy Gurarii.

Before that, on February 4, the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC) published declassified archival documents dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference of the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition countries: the Soviet Union, the United States and Great Britain.