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Konstantin Preobrazhensky Email: [email protected] Tel: 301.565.7877 Fax: 301.578.8688

WORK EXPERIENCE 1980-85 TASS News Agency correspondent, Tokyo, Japan Major: Japanese and Chinese foreign and military-industrial policies. Published 6 books and numerous articles on Japanese culture, history and politics.

1980-85 Senior officer at the KGB station, Tokyo, Japan. Main duties included recruitment of Chinese citizens as intelligence assets. Lead expert on Chinese espionage at the KGB station in Japan. Reported directly to Chebrikov, the KGB Chairman, and Kruchkov, the KGB intelligence head. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and personally thanked by Kruchkov.

1987-91 Personal advisor to the Deputy Head of the KGB Intelligence in charge of East Asia. Oversaw worldwide KGB intelligence efforts directed toward China, Japan and Korea. Run seminars on intelligence in East Asia for the KGB leadership.

Assisted in composing top-secret annual reports about worldwide Soviet intelligence efforts, submitted personally to Gorbachov, Andropov and other Soviet government officials.

1991 Retired from the KGB

1991-present Freelance journalist, writer and analyst concerning the KGB previous and current act. East Asian security expert.

An activist of the “Glasnost” Foundation, an anti-KGB body, headed by Sergei Grigoryantz, a veteran human rights activist. Regularly addressed international conference “KGB: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”.

Freelance journalist for international and Russian mass media. Created plots for TV programs. Published newspaper articles, contributed interviews, and coordinated the television production process. Set up interviews and interpreted from Japanese and Russian for international and Russian mass media.

1993-02 Security issues columnist in “The Moscow Times” (A Moscow-based English newspaper) including articles about the KGB, intelligence and counter-terrorism issues. In January, 2003 moved to the USA. Political asylee, currently in the process of obtaining U.S. citizenship.

2003-2004 Consultant, “Intercom International, USA”, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

2004-2005 Lecturer’s assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA.

2003-present. Regular speaker of the “Voice of America”. Lectured at the Columbia, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. Writer.

EDUCATION MA, Japanese and East Asian Studies, Institute of Asia and Africa of Moscow State University, Russia 1970-76 Study Abroad at Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan Majors – Japanese History and Contemporary politics 1975-76

The KGB Counterintelligence School, Minsk, USSR Major: counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence. 1976-77

The KGB Intelligence School, Moscow, USSR Major: intelligence on Japan, China and Korea 1977-79

SKILLS Computer Skills: Microsoft Office 2000 in Japanese, Russian and English. Languages: English near native Russian native Japanese fluent

MEMBERSHIP Russian Association of Japanologists 1991-present Russian Journalists’ Union 1985-present Russian Association of Guides and Interpreters 1999-present

PUBLISHED WORK BOOKS: 1. “The Bamboo Sword”. Moscow, 1983. 2. “Sports, Dressed in Kimono”. Moscow, 1985. 3. “How to become a Japanese”. Moscow, 1989. 4. “Unknown Japan”. Moscow, 1993. 5. “The Spy, who loved Japan”. Tokyo, 1994.“The KGB in Japan” Moscow, 2000 (Also published in China in 2003). 6. “KGB in Japan”. Moscow, 2000. 7. “KGB in Russian Emigration”. New York, 2007.

WAS QUOTED AND PUBLISHED BY: CNN, Reuters, BBC, SKY News, Australian TV, Fuji TV, Agence Frans-Presse, The Associated Press, Association of Former Intelligence Officers Weekly - Intelligence Notes, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Financial times, Yomiury Shimbun, Islam Online & News Agencies, Jiji Tsushin, Kyodo Tsushin, Mainichi Shimbun, Moscow News, Spy Tech Agency Intel Bulletin, Russia Reform Monitor, American Foreign Policy Council, Newsweek (Japanese edition), Khaleej Times, London Observer, The Los Angeles Times, Mainichi Shimbun, NewsMax.com, Newsweek, The New American, The Russia Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, est.

REFERENCES supplied upon request