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sent on a vacation, during which they would be arrested by the Secret Police as a foreign agent.
This final test subjected the candidate to brainwashing, torture and interrogation, to see if they
would break under the pressure. If they passed, they would be sent to one of the Soviet Ace Spy
Schools, where the training could last for up to ten years.
The Prakhovka Ace Spy School was located near Minsk, within a 220 square mile area along
the border of the Latvian Soviet Republic. The northern sector was for Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, and Finland; the southwestern sector was for the Netherlands; the southern area was
for Austria and Switzerland; and the southeastern area was for Germany. At the Stiepnaya Ace
Spy School, near Chkalov, along the northern border of the Kazakh Soviet Republic, the
northwestern section was for France; the northern area for the Spanish countries; the northeastern
section for Italy; and the southern end for Portugal, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The
Vostocznaya Ace Spy School near Khabarovsk, was for Asian and Middle East countries; and
the Novaya Ace Spy School, near Tashkent, was for the African countries.
Another Soviet Spy School was located in Gaczyna, in a 425 square mile area along the
southern border of the Tarter Autonomous Soviet Republic, and continuing to the Bashkir
Autonomous Soviet Republic. It was sealed off for a radius of thirty miles by State Security, and
the location was so secret, that it was not shown on any map. It was known to only the highest
officers of the Secret Service. The School was developed for those selected to work in the
English-speaking world, and was divided into three sections: the northern section was for North
America and Canada; the northeastern section was for the United Kingdom; and the southern
area was for Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. There was no communication
between the different areas.
In the United Kingdom section, the candidate would live in actual British-style homes,
hotels, and apartments, which were full-size replicas of actual English buildings, on actual
streets. There were British banks, restaurants, theaters, and a Post Office, all in a sixty square
mile area. Here the recruit ate British food, wore British clothes, rode London buses, and
received a weekly salary dispensed in British currency, read English papers and magazines, and
watched English television shows. The recruits were given English names, and were ordered to
speak only English, which they were given five years to master. They had to learn all necessary
British customs.
During the second five years, they memorized unbreakable codes, and were taught how to
assemble and dismantle radio receivers and transmitters; and were taught how to use
photographic equipment to reduce blueprints, records, and documents into microdots. They were
given further instruction in guerrilla warfare.
After this intensive training, the recruit was, in almost every way, British. Each agent was
smuggled into the country of their training, which in this case was England. They would never
again see their families. They would be given actual identification and ‘cover’ documents from
people who were dead or missing, so that a background check couldn’t reveal their true
identities. Within their new identity, they became involved in public life, working to undermine
the government as a representative of the communist government of the Soviet Union.
China had similar schools, but their training period was only ten months, because spies were
recruited mainly for Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist China, and other countries within Asia, where
they would fit in. To infiltrate the West, the Chinese recruited people from all over the world,
and smuggled them into China to undergo training. The school in the Honan province was for
France, Italy, and Spain; the school in the Chekiang province was for West Germany; and the
school in the Shantung province was for Austria, Switzerland, and the Arab countries.