My side project- scienceofthekgb: Re: Women in the KGB It seems female agents were frowned upon, were they seen as a liability due to stereotypes, such as emotional weakness?  xKGB: Absolutely. But you’ve read about Maria Mikota - she probably saved Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - if Germans killed them in Tehran, God knows how history would change from there. How many female KGB officers did you work with? xKGB: I had altogether around 100 agents, only 5 were women.There’s one very sensitive point with women agents - when they transfer the officer to other offices, other cites, he has to introduce the agents to his successor. I had 3 cases when women refused to work with other officers. They got attached? xKGB: Yes. To you? xKGB: (smiles) Of course. In love? xKGB: Well… (straight face) Yes.

My side project- scienceofthekgb:

Re: Women in the KGB

It seems female agents were frowned upon, were they seen as a liability due to stereotypes, such as emotional weakness? 

xKGB: Absolutely. But you’ve read about Maria Mikota - she probably saved Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - if Germans killed them in Tehran, God knows how history would change from there.

How many female KGB officers did you work with?

xKGB: I had altogether around 100 agents, only 5 were women.There’s one very sensitive point with women agents - when they transfer the officer to other offices, other cites, he has to introduce the agents to his successor. I had 3 cases when women refused to work with other officers.

They got attached?

xKGB: Yes.

To you?

xKGB: (smiles) Of course.

In love?

xKGB: Well… (straight face) Yes.

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