There are many tragic pages written in Latvian history after WWII. One of those is about Latvians in exile which Western intelligence agencies tried to use as spies against Soviet Union. However, KGB outplayed both the British and the Americans. Latvians, who had come from Sweden under Western orders, fell in cheka traps. Those, who were not shot or sent to Siberia, were recruited and sent back to spy for KGB or so called cheka. Arvīds Grigulis, after being commissioned by cheka, in 1964 wrote a novel about these events - "When rain and wind beats in window". Later a film was shot in Rīgas Kinostudija. KGB of Soviet Latvia managed to lead British intelligence by their noses for almost ten years after WWII. The author of the idea was prospective major-general of KGB Jānis Lukaševičs. In October, 1945, cheka managed to intercept Latvians who were sent in by British spies and whose task was to report to Sweden about events in Soviet land. Cheka set up a false national partisan network which pretended to be fighters for the freedom of Latvian. They made false transmission to intelligence agents in Sweden and set up contacts with actual Forest brothers in woods of Latvia. British sent Latvian spies went right into hands of KGB. Those who did not agreed to deflect to Soviet side were either killed or sent to Siberia. Later cheka used fake national partisans to infiltrate British intelligence. With the aid from real forest brothers they went to intelligence course in London and returned to Latvia as British spies. Yet they continued working for KGB. It is only possible to speculate about those evens through KGB materials in Latvia Archives. Great Britain and Sweden have not revealed their archives yet. And the bitterness is completely understandable that even high-ranking Kim Philby was working for cheka. Cheka wanted to memorialize fortune of Soviet spies in a book. KGB commissioned Arvīds Grigulis to write a novel about these events. Couple of years later Aloīzs Brenčs shot a film based on this novel. It had to tell Soviet citizens about great fortune of post-war chekists and disapprove of any contacts with exiled compatriots. It was during that time when KGB set off active propaganda against ideological foes in the West. As Ritvars Jansons, a historian for the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, says: "Exile in the West was associated with war criminals who had commited crimes agains humanity and genocide during Nazi occupation of Baltic states. In the early sixties in Lithuania, in Estonia, in Latvia disinformational ideological brochures are being written by agents of KGB, documentaries are being shot under direct supervision of KGB" Radist Rihards Zande serves as a prototype for Leinasars (played by Harijs Liepiņš). Zande was one of Latvians who fled to Sweden in a boat, became a employee of British intelligence and was sent back to Latvia. The British were promising Latvians aid in restoring the independence of Latvia. Ritvars Jansons says: "Let us not be under illusions that British or USA intelligence hoped to develop resistance movement here and that is why they showed help. There were actual dispatches of firearms which were intercepted by cheka. But they were not mean to create strong resistance movement, they were meant to aid partisans who would extract information from members of Latvian resistance movement." The notion - fight for independent Latvia - was used by both sides. Both Swedes and British who sent exile Latvians in hopeless missions, both KGB the spies of which kept playing underground partisans for years. British and Swedish special services still keep the documents in great secrecy. We can find out about tragic destinies of Latvians only from materials of Latvian cheka and memories of the survivors. Ritvars Jansons says: "The contribution on those Latvians who collaborated with intelligence services and tried to restore Latvian Central Council was immense because they sacrificed themselves. I suspect that is not judged properly here or in the West. They were not properly trained to perform intelligence missions against Soviets, against total control and well-advanced counterintelligence. They were fundamentally sacrificed."
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