FBIS4-40805
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Daily Report
18 Jun 1994
RUSSIA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Freeh Visit Denotes `Friendly Terms' of Links With FBI
Freeh Visit Denotes `Friendly Terms' of Links With FBI
PM2006124194 Moscow KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA in Russian 18 Jun
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PM2006124194
Moscow KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA
Russian
BFN
[Report by Stanislav Kucher under "Foreign News" rubric:
"FBI Chief To Visit Us"]
[Text] FBI Director Louis Freeh will be visiting Moscow
from 3 through 6 July (incidentally, he will also celebrate
American Independence Day here) at the official invitation of
Internal Affairs Minister Viktor Yerin. During the visit he
will take in various Russian Federation MVD [Ministry of
Internal Affairs] structures, the Russian Justice Ministry, the
General Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Counterintelligence
Service, and the Foreign Ministry with his assistants and
advisers, and will also be talking to students at the MVD
Academy. The signing of a protocol on opening an official FBI
office in Moscow is also scheduled. The "G-men" will have their
own office on a floor of the U.S. Embassy equipped with the most
modern methods of communicating with Washington.
"We have been on friendly terms with the FBI for three years
now," Mikhail Yegorov, chief of the Russian Federation MVD Main
Administration for Combating Organized Crime, said. "We are
cooperating in the fight against the mafia, which operates in
both Russia and the United States. Currently our administration
is pursuing over 30 criminal cases with the FBI -- we are
investigating the activity of 30 Russian criminal groups closely
linked to the American mafia, mainly in the sphere of major
financial irregularities. We are looking for both the criminals
and 'dirty' money leaving our country. In Moscow we will
discuss tactics for joint work and summarize the results of what
has been done."
The upcoming meeting is not the first in the history of the
MVD and FBI. There were such meetings the year before last and
last year, and this past winter Yegorov "went to the States
himself."