Russian TV presenter Vladimir Pozner was accused of working for the KGB. This statement was made by the special agent of the FBI Kevin Helson (Kevin Helson) in testimony about Maria Butina, a Russian woman detained in the US. In comments to one of the e-mails of Butina, which was called "Second Posner", Helson writes that it is a famous Russian journalist. According to the FBI agent, Vladimir Pozner - "a propagandist who worked in the disinformation department of the Soviet KGB, he often appeared in Western television broadcasts during the Cold War, explaining the views of the Soviet Union". The testimony of Helson is published on the website of the US Department of Justice. The TV host with irony reacted to the revelations of the American special agent: "It's even funny to comment on such things.

I did appear on the screens, I really worked in our foreign policy propaganda - in the State Television and Radio of the USSR in the foreign broadcasting of the ". Pozner denied his cooperation with the KGB and recalled that he had been away for nearly 30 years. "If I worked in the KGB, I would probably still traveled the world," he told "Media Zone". In the United States, a 29-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina. The US Justice Department believes that she was spying for Russia, now she faces a prison, like URA. EN.