Opening the archives of the Soviet special services and deciphering the agents was an issue in Armenia starting from the days of the Nagorno-Karabakh movement. Throughout the past 18-19 years people forgot and recalled that issue on and off. It usually becomes a real issue during the pre-electoral period. Today, there are enough grounds to claim that this time the topic of “deciphering the special services agents” is going to be one of the prior issues that fit in with the “play” of the political oppositionists. The difference between now and the previous years is that this time there will be a demand to decipher not only the agents of the Soviet KGB, but also the names of the special service agents of all countries based on the reason that many of those agents hold rather influential posts in Armenia’s media, political and cultural fields, as well as state structures.
The first deciphering was published in the press recently. It was announced that one of the current heads of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia had become a Soviet KGB agent back in the 1960s and in addition, this was neither the first nor the last deciphering. According to well-informed sources, there will be other news printed in the presses regarding the agents during the pre-electoral period. According to the same sources, the presses will first reveal the agents who had been “gathered” by the special services in the circle of the Young Communists’ League (YSL). It turns out that those agents hold high posts in the pro-government and oppositional fields of Armenia , while others are part of the rich level of society and are even considered as oligarchs. The fact of the matter is that those sources can be from the West or Russia , or even the East. The problem is that, as a result of some transactions, the archives of the USSR KGB somehow made it to the American National Security Service in the early 90s (and probably not only there) and today, anyone can use the “agents topic’ for his political interests.
