Background
He was born in the family of a Soviet Army officer
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Stanislav Lunev
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He graduated from the Suvorov Military School in Vladikavkaz, and then from Joint Arms High Command Military Academy.
Career
He then worked as a GRU intelligence officer in Singapore in 1978, in China from 1980, and in the United States from 1988. He defected to United States. authorities in 1992. Since then he has worked as a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. As of 2000, he remained in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Witness Protection Program.
Lunev is mostly known for his description of nuclear sabotage operations that have allegedly been prepared by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) and GRU against the western countries.
lieutenant was known from other sources that large arms caches were hidden by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) in many countries for these planned activities. They were booby-trapped with "Lightning" explosive devices.
One of such cache, which was identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from woods near Bern. Several others caches were removed successfully.
Lunev asserted that some of the hidden caches could contain portable tactical nuclear weapons known as Research Associate-115 "suitcase bombs".
Such bombs have been prepared to assassinate United States leaders in the event of war, according to him. Lunev states that he had personally looked for hiding places for weapons caches in the Shenandoah Valley area and that "it is surprisingly easy to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States, either across the Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane. United States Congressman Curt Weldon supported claims by Lunev but noted that Lunev had "exaggerated things", according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Searches of the areas identified by Lunev — who admits he never planted any weapons in the United States — have been conducted, "but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons." According to Lunev, a probable scenario in the event of war would have been poisoning the Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, "targeting the residents of Washington, District of Columbia" He also considered it "likely" that GRU operatives placed "poison supplies near the tributaries to major United States reservoirs." These allegations have been confirmed by former SVR officer Kouzminov who was responsible for transporting pathogens from around the world for Russian program of biological weapons in the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
He described a variety of biological warfare acts that would be carried out on the order of the Russian President in the event of hostilities, including poisoning public drinking-water supplies and food processing plants.
