A few days ago, a photo was widely dispersed on the Web, which stated, the KGB document from 1987 with a characteristic of Alexander Lukashenko, now the President of the Republic of Belarus. The document states that in the same 1987 Lukashenko was recruited by the KGB of the USSR as an agent of Valet. We decided to figure out whether this document can be genuine.

Initially, a photograph of the document appeared in Telegram channels, later it was quoted by the media, mainly Ukrainian and Belarusian. Information was reprinted in media such as "Focus", Vesti-ua.net, "Glavred", "Apostrophe", "Charter'97" and others.

It is noteworthy that the first publications of the document appeared on December 7 in Ukrainian Telegram channels. The earliest (14:51) the publication we found was published in the channel "Kyiv is operational"(337,000 subscribers), two minutes later, the publication with the same photo appeared in the channel Nazara Prikhodko. At the same time, “Kyiv Operational” in words referred to some Belarusian Telegram channels, but in fact, it was not possible to find these channels, as well as the earlier publications of this photo.

Two hours later, information (also citing unnamed Belarusian media) published among others and the famous Ukrainian Telegram channel Informnapalm. From that moment on, the authors of publications in other channels and the media, including Belarusian, mainly referred to Informnapalm. For example, this was done on the opposition Belarusian resource "Charter'97". But neither they nor other carpets were able to find some Belarusian sources of this information.

At the same time, Informnapalm supplemented the message with the assertion that they have known about the agent nickname Lukashenko for a long time and that is supposedly, this is why the portrait of the President of Belarus was located on the Diamond Valet in May of the Military Criminals of the Russian Federation in May of this year. The fact that they did not make such statements before, in the publication explained as follows: they "waited for Pruf to appear in the public space to tell you about this interesting nuance."

The document itself is compiled quite competently, but there are several nuances that make you doubt its authenticity.

1. The characteristic is given in free form, however, in reality, for accounting for agents in the KGB during this period, there was a special form approved order Chairman of the KGB of the USSR No. 00145 of July 4, 1983. The process of accounting for the agent was strictly regulated. In particular, it was described in paragraph 12 of the order. In such a form, as in a document in the photo, the characteristics of agents were given several decades earlier:

2. The first page of such documents, especially prepared for the Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, was printed in the official forms of the territorial unit of the KGB in the 1980s. As an example, you can look at several declassified documents of the Ukrainian KGB of the same period (1, 2, 3):

Theoretically, the document could not be on the form if it was prepared in a hurry and contained operational information, but in this case there is no reason to assume a lack of time for the compilers. At the same time, it is much more difficult to falsify the document on the form than simple typewritten.

3. It is not clear why the document is addressed to such a high instance, the head of the 13th department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR A.V. Guki is a clear violation of jurisdiction. In the USSR, the KGB had territorial units that was responsible for its work in the republics and regions. The KGB of the Belarusian SSR was engaged in agents in the Mogilev region, such information was not sent to Moscow. This is impossible - say, in 1986 there were about 7500 agents in Latvia alone in 1986 KGB, in total, many dozens, if not hundreds of thousands of agents, acted in the country, the head of the department could not affirm all of them. Even for the central apparatus of the KGB of the BSSR, the information about the Valet agent was completely unnecessary, the local units dealt with such issues.

4. The 13th department was engaged in monitoring by Soviet citizens traveling abroad, while monitoring the USSR entering the territory of the USSR (as discussed in the document) was engaged in the sixth department of the 2nd department KGB.

5. Arkady Vasilievich GUK really headed the 13th Directorate of the 2nd Directorate of the KGB of the USSR since 1984, but, according to information from open sources, by January 1987 he had already left this position and worked as deputy head of the department "RT" PSU KGB of the USSR.

6. On the document with the signature of the chief of this level and with the mark “I affirm”, there should have been a seal on top of the signature, but there is no one in the photo. There is no stamp with an inventory number, there is no account of the document - such a document could not be intended for such a high instance and for storage in the archive.

7. A copy number is printed on the document in the machine. This is a gross violation of the rules of document management of that time. As can be seen with numerous examples of the KGB documents (and not only the KGB) of that time, only the word “copy” was printed in the machine way, after which an empty place was left on the paper. This was due to the fact that copies were created directly while writing the original using a copy sheet (later they were replaced by copying devices), that is, both copies of the document were printed simultaneously on the same printing machine. The affixed number would be on both copies of the document, which, of course, is unacceptable, so the free space was left and the number of the copy was written by hand.

8. Opening and closing quotes differ from each other. This is a sign that the document was created in a graphic editor on a computer, and not on a printing machine, since in printing machines opening and closing quotes were typed the same key.

9. In the personal data of A. G. Lukashenko, his nationality is indicated as “Belarus”. In 1987, such a spelling of this word in official documents could not be used. This version appeared only in 1991, after the Supreme Council of the BSSR on September 19, 1991 adopted the "Law of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic on the name of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic", which enshrined the name of the country as Belarus. Until then, only the words “Belarus” and “Belarusian” were used in the USSR.

10. A spaceship form “with higher education” was used instead of the usual phrase “higher education” for Soviet document management. In documents of this type, it was one of the most common language cliches - it is difficult to imagine what could make the written from him to refuse.

11. In the Soviet document circulation, the letter "Y" was used relatively infrequently. Here it meets twice, and, unlike the Mogilev region, Mogilev himself in the text is written through “E”.

12. Lukashenko is proposed to be used as a "head of the leading collective household-millionaire." But, firstly, Lukashenko headed the state farm (Soviet economy), not a collective farm (collective farm). And secondly, as is known by numerous memories eyewitnesses, the state farm "Gorodets" in 1987 was deeply unprofitable enterprise, Lukashenko led him only in March of the same year and only in January 1988 he began reforms, thanks to which after another year the enterprise became profitable.

13. The very meaning of the document is doubtful. As a rule, the KGB was not interested in the details of the agent’s personal life, since he was not an employee of the KGB, but acted only as an informant. Moreover, it is not clear how Lukashenko could “use cooperation with the KGB in its interests”, given that he was already the head of the state farm, that is, the first person of the district. In addition, the KGB had to have a characteristic on Lukashenko, since from 1975 to 1977 he He served In the border troops of the KGB of the USSR, he was an instructor in the political department of the military unit of the Western Border District (Brest). According to some reports, Lukashenko specifically asked him to send him to serve in the part of the KGB of the USSR, wishing to subsequently make a career in the organs. However, both the command of the unit and the curator issued Lukashenko, upon dismissal, negative characteristics.

Thus, the recruitment document A. G. Lukashenko has obvious signs of falsification and cannot be reliable. Apparently, it was recently created using digital technologies, and the nickname Valet, most likely, was borrowed from the Informnapalm card deck.

Photo on the cover: Media