Writer Ihor Kostetskyi. The kgb Tried to Catch Him, but Failed…

The archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine contain numerous intelligence files in which the intrigue lasts until the very last pages. Among them – a four-volume case file on the Ukrainian writer, translator, critic, literary scholar, director, and publisher Ihor Kostetskyi, which the kgb initially codenamed “Writer.” It documents the kgb agents’ numerous attempts to win over this extraordinary, extravagant, provocative, and ambitious modernist writer and recruit him to participate in active information and propaganda campaigns. Declassified documents and other sources reveal the methods used at that and what remained behind the scenes of the special operation.

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