Mark Hollingsworth

Is this the man who will one day take over from Putin?

The chilling prospect of Nikolai Patrushev succeeding Putin is very real

Russian president Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Secretary of Russia's Security Council Nikolai Patrushev (Credit: Getty images)

Boris Ratnikov, a former KGB officer and retired chief advisor to Russia’s security service, gave a remarkable interview back in 2016. Ratnikov, who died in 2020, claimed his boss had penetrated and read the mind of Madeleine Albright while she was US Secretary of State in the mid-1990s.

Ratnikov said his superior officer used a photograph to penetrate Albright’s subconscious where he discovered her secret thoughts about the priority of removing Siberia and the Far East from Russian territory.

The senior intelligence official in question was Georgy Rogozin, a top KGB officer between 1969 and 1992, who became deputy chief of president Yeltsin’s security service. Rogozin conducted secret experiments trying to use telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnosis and astrology to infiltrate the CIA and the US government. While based in the Kremlin, the KGB general dealt in the occult, made up the souls of the dead and believed he could penetrate people’s subconscious by using photographs. His technique was to lie down and fall into a hypnotic state through which he could communicate with Albright, and hence read her mind, infiltrate her soul and discover her secret agendas.

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Based on these methods, Rogozin sent a report to his deputy Ratnikov with an exciting ‘revelation’ about US foreign policy. 

‘In Albright’s thoughts, we found pathological hatred of the Slavs’, recalled Ratnikov. ‘She (Albright) was outraged by the fact that Russia has the largest mineral reserves. In her opinion, in the future, Russia’s reserves should be managed not by one country but by all of humanity under the supervision of the United States…Also, based on the thoughts of Albright, it followed that the US Army would use some kind of chemical and biological weapons in Yugoslavia with warheads containing radioactive elements’.

Needless to say, the US Secretary of State never advocated – privately or publicly – the stripping of Siberia. It

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Mark Hollingsworth

Mark Hollingsworth is the author of ‘Londongrad – From Russia with Cash’. His new book, ‘Agents of Influence – How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies’, will be published by Oneworld this April.

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