KGB Took Millions to Overseas Communists
The Communist Party used KGB couriers to carry about $200 million in state funds to Communists in the United States, France, Israel and other countries over the last three decades, a prosecutor said Monday.
About 98 foreign parties and organizations in 80 countries received financial aid from the Soviet Union on orders from the party’s Central Committee, said Yevgeny Lisov, Russia’s first deputy prosecutor general.
The committee established a special fund in the 1950s that transferred up to $25 million a year, said Lisov, who is the chief investigator looking into last August’s failed coup.
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