“The White Paper” of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine

UNVEILED HISTORY

Mykola Krasovskyi. A Detective and Intelligence Officer

In the history of national special services, it is hard to find a person who would so organically combine the features of a detective-investigator, intelligence officer-practitioner and creator of the basic provisions of intelligence. Mykola Krasovskyi succeeded. Even in the tsarist Russia, he gained the fame of one of the best detectives in Kyiv, during the Ukrainian People's Republic he was Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, later headed the “Information Bureau” of the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the UPR Army. At the head of this main working body of intelligence of the Armed Forces of the Republic, he personally developed a number of regulations that formed the basis of national intelligence and counterintelligence.