When he was the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the World Council of Churches he collaborated with the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov”
A sensational revelation was made by the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, according to which the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill – during the years he was the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches – was working with the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov”. .
Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) worked for KGB and carried out intelligence activities in the 1970s in favor of the USSR
French-language Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche and German newspaper SonntagsZeitung stated this, citing declassified archives.
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church (née Vladimir Gudnyaev), in the 1970s, carried out espionage activity in Geneva by order of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR, a number of Swiss newspapers wrote yesterday, especially the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper (in the article of: Putins Patriarch war Spion in der Schweiz) citing declassified state archives from the period 1969 -1989.
According to these figures, Gudniaev was working for the Russian spy agency, using the code name “Mikhailov”.
The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a strong supporter of President Vladimir Putin, worked for Soviet intelligence while living in Switzerland in the 1970s, Swiss newspapers reported, citing declassified archives.https://t.co/z87Y6EB4XY
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) February 6, 2023
The current Patriarch was engaged in espionage, holding in Switzerland the official position of the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in the World Council of Churches, the newspaper reports.
His main task was to influence the World Council of Churches. From Switzerland he returned to the Soviet Union where he quickly began to advance in the church hierarchy.
The Russian Orthodox Church refused to comment on the Swiss press reports, while the World Council of Churches said it had no information on the matter.
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