Analysis of Through the Eyes of the Enemy by Stanislav Lunev

(Chapter 5,6,7)
by Dr. Jeffrey Russell, PhD

Stanislav Lunev was a Soviet GRU agent who defected to the United States in
March of 1992 after a successful career of intelligence gathering from China and
the United States. As the highest-ranking military defector to the U.S., he is in a
unique position to detail the intelligence aspect of the cold war and the
emergence of the Russian mafia as a threat to national security. His only book to
date was published May 25, 1998.
[Note: This book was published 20 years ago and much has changed with
geopolitics. The purpose of this analysis, in relation to Q post #827 on February
24, 2018, is to aid in decoding the meaning of the post.]

Chapter 5 Hungary: Learning to Penetrate Enemy Lines

As I rode the train to Hungary, I was surprised to find that the land and fields were much
more cleaner and organized than the Ukraine. Everything was kept well because the people
cared for their land. At my new camp, I was assigned to the Deep Reconnaissance Company.
Our mission was to penetrate enemy lines and perform functions within the enemy’s territory
such as reconnaissance, capture POWs, destroy military buildings, capture/hold bridges and
tunnels. This was equivalent to the Western special forces. The Spetznatz units operated in
deep cover only as tactical units. As a result of my successes, I was invited by the Intelligence
Directorate to join the Spetznatz for some real action in Vietnam. I declined that offer, since I
was already accepted at the Lenin Law School. He told me to give him a call just in case I failed
my entrance exams.
In 1971, I passed the entrance exams and I was able to begin work at the Law School. I was
married and had a new daughter and life was getting better.

Chapter 6 Military Justice

 At the academy we spent a lot of time studying Marxist-Leninist ideology, the history of the
Communist Party, political economics, and theory of scientific communism. Here, total loyalty
to the communist regime was demanded. One privilege I had there was to visit the archives of
the Central State Lenin Library and view the original documents with handwritten notes. What
I found was quite shocking. Many of the leaders were obviously mentally and morally
deranged. They had ordered the deaths of millions of regular citizens whose only crime was to
be dissatisfied with the regime in power. I read one paper by Lenin which ordered intelligence
officers to go into small towns and stir up the civilians, after which the military would arrive and
kill everyone in sight.
During the middle of my last year there, my class commander called me into his office and
introduced me to a gray-haired man in civilian clothes. He was introduced as Sergei Fedorovich.
After asking me a wide variety of questions, he identified himself as a colonel in the GRU. He
asked me if I would consider joining. I told him that it would be an honor to serve there. Then I
signed a form saying that our meeting never took place. After a series of difficult tests, I ended
up in a meeting facing 2 generals. They informed me that I passed the tests and then asked me
dozens more questions. At the end of the grilling a 2-star air force general welcomed me to
“the Family of Soviet Military Intelligence.”
After graduating from law school, I reported to the Military Diplomatic Academy (MDA) for
my GRU assignment. I was assigned to the First Faculty, which meant I was to work as a real
spy. I was told to report to the Music Band complex where I would spend my first year of my
new education.

Chapter 7 Training and Terrorism

I began my spy training Sept. 1, 1975 at the Moscow Military Districts Music Band
compound. This was the GRU First Faculty. We were given our permanent assignments based
on geographical regions. I was given East Asia. We were also given our 3-digit identity which
we used instead of our names. That way, if an operator went rogue he could only give numbers
and not names. When the numbering system wasn’t working, we were told to use our wives’
names. I was assigned to the Chinese subgroup.
The GRU standards were very high and the attrition rate was considerable. Russia regarded
China as its #2 enemy, so our roles were very important. Our training included every part of spy
craft. We also learned in detail the different parts of the American military. I discovered that
the GRU was spending huge amounts of money funding antiwar demonstrations in the US.
They used multiple cutouts for these activities to hide the true source of the funds. I also
learned that the GRU was one of the primary instructors of terrorists worldwide.
 One of the benefits of being GRU is that we did not have to work on farms harvesting crops
for 2 months every year. In 1978 I graduated as a top student in my group. I had to leave for
Singapore immediately since 2 GRU officers had just been expelled. Our “roof” or cover was
that we were exchange students.