title: American Intelligence and Belarusian Emigration against Soviet Byelorussia during the Cold War
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metadata.value: Kodin, Evgenii V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-02-02T14:18:29Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Kodin E. V. American Intelligence and Belarusian Emigration against Soviet Byelorussia during the Cold War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 4, pp. 974–990. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.411
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44785
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metadata.value: By the end of the Second World War, about 200 thousand Belarusians ended up as refugees in
  Western Europe. A significant part of them were repatriated to the Soviet Union, more than
  one thousand moved to the USA, another fifteen hundred — to other non-European countries.
  In 1951, the number of Belarusians remaining in Europe was sixty thousand people. Belarusian
  emigration, as well as the emigration from other Soviet Republics, immediately came
  to the attention of the US Central Intelligence Agency within the framework of a document
  developed in 1948 by the State Department entitled “Utilization of Refugees from the Soviet
  Union in U. S. National Interests”, which was supposed to “fill in the niches in our current
  intelligence, in public information, and in our politico-psychological operations”. The Central
  Intelligence Agency was supposed to develop and quite generously finance the intelligence
  and propaganda projects and programs important for the agency. The leadership of the Rada
  of the Belarusian People’s Republic (in exile) headed by its chairman Nikolai Abramchik was
  to be responsible for staffing the necessary number of agents from among the emigrant Belarusian
  youth to infiltrate into Belarus and for distributing information among the national
  European emigration. However, this did not cause any expected “resistance movement” within
  the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic contrary to the intended actions of the Central
  Intelligence Agency and the Rada. By the end of 1961, the projects of the Central Intelligence
  Agency in Belarus conducted since 1951, including the most famous AEQUOR, which involved
  infiltrating agents into the territory of the republic, were closed.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Intelligence Agency
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belarusian post-war emigration
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rada of Belarusian People’s Republic
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metadata.value: Cold War
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
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metadata.value: American Intelligence and Belarusian Emigration against Soviet Byelorussia during the Cold War
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