11-13-2009, 05:57 AM
Will Wrote:The thing that surprised me about Oleg Kalugin was that his highest "standard" award was the Order of the Red Banner. Frankly, in light of his career, I would have thought that he would have received a Lenin. Then again, he apparently rubbed some prominent people the wrong way. He did, however, receive three "Honored Chekist" awards.
From what I read in his autobiography, after the successful completion of some recruiting of KGB agents inthe US, he returned home and Vladimir Kryuchkov, who was either chief of foreign intelligence or was about to be, gave Kalugin the choice of which order he would like to receive - the ORB or the Order of the October Revolution. He didn't say which he took in the book, so thank you for the information. He also received a ORB from Bulgaria, but I can't remember what for.
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