Former KGB Agents Open Private Eye Office in Leningrad
Budding Sam Spadovitches with KGB pedigrees have set up shop in Leningrad, opening what they say is the first private detective agency in the Soviet Union.
The Leningrad detective bureau is staffed with former agents from the Committee for State Security, or KGB, the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the newspaper Sovietskaya Kultura said Saturday.
V. Kosyakov, one of the cooperative’s founders, said his agency is prepared to help anyone who seeks assistance, except criminals or other shady characters.
Among the services offered are legal consultations, missing persons investigations and protection from racketeers.
Kosyakov said the bureau guarantees its honesty. “Respect for order and professionalism--those are the two fundamental criteria” for hiring staff, he added.
Sovietskaya Kultura made no mention of the agency’s fees.
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