Auction 88
Historical Militaria, Autographs, and Ephemera Auction, Feb. 8 & 9, 2021
By Alexander Historical Auctions LLC
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Feb 8, 2021
98 Bohemia Ave., St. 2, Chesapeake City, MD 21915, United States
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1,400 lots of historical militaria from all conflicts; historical autographs and ephemera from all fields of collecting.
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LOT 715:
VLADIMIR KRYUCHKOV
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Sold for: $160
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
208
Start price:
$
100
Estimated price :
$200 - $300
Buyer's Premium: 30%
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VLADIMIR KRYUCHKOV
(1924-2007) Soviet lawyer, diplomat, head of the KGB, member of the Politburo. Also was a key organizer of the anti-Gorbachev coup in 1991. Great espionage content D.S. as Deputy Chairman of the KGB on KGB letterhead, 1p. 4to., Moscow, Aug. 4, 1986, addressed to the Minister of Foreign Trade about a recent KGB operation, regarding the import of embargoed technology into the Soviet Union. In part: '...The Committee of State Security of the USSR (KGB) completed the extraction and delivery...of a product of a strict embargo on the instructions of the Commission of the Council of Ministers...on new technology...carried out in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and directly with 'Sudoimport', which provided commercial cover for the extraction and delivery channel of the sample...' Kryuchkov signs at the conclusion in blue ink. Trimmed at left, some loss at upper-right, else fine condition. -
