Career
He was widely regarded the chief Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) ideologist or "Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) brain". Bobkov began his career in the Soviet secret services in 1945, when they were guided by Lavrentiy Beria, and survived Beria and eleven subsequent secret police chairmen. During the 1970s-1980s he "effectively became the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)"s real chairm(a)n, although officially he held the post of first deputy".
Creation of front organizations
He also invented Liberal Democratic Party of Russia according to Soviet Political Bureau member Alexander Yakovlev.
Ethnic conflicts
As described in his official biography, Bobkov was personally engaged in resolving ethnic conflicts in the Soviet Union, including Sumgait pogrom, Events in Vilnius, 1989 pogroms in the Fergana valley in Uzbekistan, Almaty revolt in 1986, January 1991 events in Latvia, and many others However, all these conflicts were organized by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) itself to justify the importance of the Soviet secret services, according to Communist Party of the Soviet Union Political Bureau member Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev.
Perestroika
According to Bobkov, the perestroika has been invented by him and his Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) colleagues: "We in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) contributed quite a bit to the process of perestroika because.. without it the Soviet Union could not move ahead."
Documents Robert van Voren found in the archive of the Stasi service suggest something different: in summer 1989, when perestroika and Germany’s unification were at their height, Bobkov arrived in Berlin and said Stasi Director Erich Mielke that it was the work of mentally ill persons. Bobkov allegedly supervised transfer of Communist Party money to foreign banks prior to the 1991 Soviet coup d"état attempt.
In October 1990, Bobkov ordered creation of commercial firms and banks, which were managed by Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) officers and their "trusted contacts".
The project was funded by Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) and Party money, "which made up almost 80 % of the amount invested in the new banks, stock exchanges, and businesses in 1990-1991", according to a testimony of Richard Palmer in United States Congress about infiltration of the Western financial system. Nikolay Kruchina, a high ranking Communist Party of the Soviet Union official who was officially responsible for supervising the Communist Party money fell down of his luxury apartment window in Moscow soon after the events. Post-Soviet Russia
The entire archive of 5th Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) department was taken to Media-Most.
This security service allegedly organized an attempted assassination of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in 1994.
He also worked as a personal security adviser of Russian Parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov.
