The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, worked for the USSR State Security Committee in Geneva in the 1970s. There he represented the Moscow Patriarchate in the World Council of Churches (WCC).
At that time, the Soviet leadership wanted the WCC to start condemning the United States and its allies and not criticize religious lack of freedom in the USSR.
Le Matin Dimanche and Sonntags Zeitung, citing declassified archives, claim that in those years he worked in Geneva under the pseudonym Mikhailov and influenced the World Council of Churches. His task was to soften Western criticism of the lack of religious freedom in the USSR.
The Swiss police then compiled a dossier on Kirill, indicating him as a KGB agent.
The Muscovy Embassy in Bern called the information about Kirill’s agency past another example of “Russophobia”. The Russian Orthodox Church has not yet commented on this, and the WCC noted that it does not have such information. But Kirill’s nephew and successor in office in Geneva, Mikhail Gundyaev, objected that his uncle was an agent.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the richest oligarchs in Russia. Back in the 1990s, he made money by importing tobacco and alcohol products, for which he was nicknamed the “tobacco metropolitan.” Now he continues to actively cooperate with the Russian special services and imposes the Kremlin’s blasphemous propaganda on the Russian society, supporting Moscow in the war against Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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