Felix_Karasev

Felix Karasev

Felix Karasev

Soviet KGB General and diplomat (1929–2023)

Felix Karasev or Feliks Dmitriyevich Sutyrin (Russian: Феликс Дмитриевич Сутырин; 1 May 1929, Leningrad – 12 January 2023, St. Petersburg) was a KGB colonel and Soviet diplomat. He served three times in Finland between 1963 and 1992. His memoir Naapurinpojan muistelmat was published in Finnish in 1998.[1]

Both Vladimir Putin and Sergei Ivanov worked for Karasev when he was in the Leningrad and Leningrad Region Directorate of the KGB.[2]

Some sources say that Karasev was a KGB general.[3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    Hämäläinen, Unto (3 February 2023). "Felix Karasev 1929–2023: Koiviston ja Kremlin viestinviejä". Helsingin Sanomat (Obituary) (in Finnish). p. B 16.
  2. [2]
    Birds of a feather, upwardly mobile. Archived 20 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Helsingin Sanomat.
  3. [3]
    "National Archives releases over 13,000 JFK assassination files". New York Post. 15 December 2022.
  4. [4]
    Kristiina Häikiö (16 December 2022). "Paluumatkan mutkat : Inkeriläisten paluumuuton alkaminen ja laajeneminen Neuvostoliiton hajoamisen aikaan" (doctoral dissertation). University of Helsinki.
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