AZG Armenian Daily #079, 03/05/2005

Opinion

‘SHOOTING OF THE ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT WAS ORGANIZED BY RUSSIAN SPECIAL SERVICES’

FSB Colonel Claims

Former employee of Russia’s Federal Security Service, colonel
Alexander Litvinenko, stated form his political asylum in Great
Britain that the shooting of Armenian parliament on October 27 of
1999 was organized by Russian special services, more precisely Russian
Military Reconnaissance.

“Pursuing certain political aims, the Russian special services often
turn to subversive activity. Many know in highest echelons of Russia’s
special services that the shooting of the Armenian parliament in 1999
was organized by RMR. This sabotage enabled Russia’s political elite
to prevent signing of the agreement on Karabakh settlement. If I am not
mistaken, it was said that president Aliyev and Kocharian were to sign
a memorandum at the Istanbul summit of OSCE. The peaceful process was
developing aloof from Russia’s control and that made Russian special
services to carry out the special mission in the Armenian parliament”,
Litvinenko told Real Azerbaijan online newspaper ().

Litvinenko said that he personally recruited employees of Azerbaijan’s
special services who occupy high positions today as well. “I was
working at the anti-terror department. We actively engaged against
Azerbaijan. I personally recruited 12 employees of Azeri National
Security Service”, he noted.

“There are now 30 agents of Russian special services. Why? Because
Putin does not trust Ilham Aliyev. Putin needs alternative sources
of information. All Russia’s institutes of Azerbaijan carry out
tasks of the center, watch and control Aliyev”, Litvinenko said.