‘KGB will revenge on him’: ex-prdt candidate about Young Frong activist’s confession
Young Front activist Syarhei Palcheuski, known for his active participation in the defense of Kurapaty, admitted that he had signed the documents on secret cooperation with the KGB as ‘agent Artur’.
In an open letter published on Facebook, Palcheuski disclosed details and called his post ‘confession’.
We asked politician and former presidential candidate Ales Mikhalevich to comment on the situation. Arrested after the 2010 presidential election, Mikhalevich also agreed to cooperate with the secret police, but when released, he unveiled what had happened at a press conference. Having made a confesstion, Mikhalevich left for the Czech Republic.
What did KGB officers want from ‘agent Arthur’?
I think they wanted Palcheuski to continuously supply them with information about Young Front, its plans and intentions. He is one of the leaders.
But didn’t they have his psychological portrait? I think they knew that he had handcuffed himself to a truck when defending Kurapaty?
Speaking about agenct recruitment, it is not the first mistake that the secret service has made. They repeatedly missed when staking on someone. If they knew that a man was strong and resilient, they were trying to find leverage: for example, the threat of initiating of a criminal case against him or him family or disclosing any compromising facts.
The cooperation has been de facto canceled; is there anything posing a threat to Palcheuski?
Yes, there is. The KGB will take revenge. For example, they may re-attach him to the ‘case of patriots’. I highly recommend Palcheuski leave Belarus for some time or lie low. He’d better go to where no one will find him and turn his mobile phone off.
Belsat.eu tried to ask the press service of the KGB for a comment, but its spokesman Dzmitry Pabyarzhyn agency was out. A KGB officer on the phone refused to speak to us.
In 1991, the Belarusian KGB tried to recruit poet Slavamir Adamovich. In 2010, a document on cooperation was signed by Uladzimir Kobets, the head of presidential candidate Andrey Sannikau’s election team, who still lives in exile. In 2007, Poland-based Kalinouski program student Uladzislau Mikhailau admitted his deal with the KGB. In the 2000s, the Committee blackmailed Andrey Zaytsau, an activist of opposition organization Zubr, who later committed suicide.
