A Tour d’Horizon Through the West’s Leakiest Kremlin Vault

By [REDACTED] | Saturday Essay, 1 February 2025

I. The Gatekeeper

Bernd Pulch does not look like a man who keeps the Kremlin’s secrets.

On a drizzle-soaked morning in Berlin-Mitte, he greets me in a windowless coworking suite that smells of espresso and toner. The walls are bare except for a single A-4 sheet: a 1985 KGB travel warrant, its purple stamp still vivid.

“Everyone thinks the files are in Moscow. They’re not. They’re here, here and here. And most of them are free.”

For seventeen years Pulch has run BerndPulch.org, a no-budget blog that has become the unofficial card catalogue of Soviet—and now Russian—intelligence leaks. What started as a hobbyist scrape of open-source documents has metastasised into a one-man research service used by sanctions lawyers, investigative reporters and, he claims, “at least three Western intel agencies who never say hello but always download the excel.”

Today he is my guide through what he calls “the West’s leakiest Kremlin vault,” a constellation of servers from Cambridge to California that house everything from a 639-page KGB training manual to the FSB’s own after-action report on the 2015 “Cyclone” cyber drill. The tour is chronological, beginning with Cheka stationery and ending with a 2024 FSB fax on drone-countermeasures that arrived, Pulch insists, “still warm.”

II. Stop 1 – DocumentCloud, San Francisco

We open with a mouse click.

The first hit is a four-page KGB circular dated 12 March 1992, instructing border guards to confiscate “all undeclared magnetic media” leaving the newly minted Russian Federation. Pulch zooms in on a signature: Colonel V. V. Pronin, later deputy director of the FSB’s economic-security branch. “Same man, new badge,” he shrugs. “Agencies die; personnel rosters don’t.”

Next comes the 34-page “Cyclone” deck—slide after slide of network topologies and red-team timelines. The FSB classified it “Ofitsial’no-Sluzhebnoye” (official-use only), yet it sits on a public server between a California water board’s ozone report and an Alabama school-district RFP. “The cloud has no memory,” Pulch says, “but it never forgets.”

III. Stop 2 – The Holocaust Museum, Washington

If DocumentCloud is the flea market, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is the vault.

Pulch shares his screen: 55 microfilm reels, digitised at 600 dpi, containing Cheka interrogations of Nazi camp guards in Minsk and Kiev. One file, 143 handwritten pages, records the 1946 deposition of Feodor Fedorenko, later extradited from the U.S. and executed. The margins bear violet NKVD stamps—tridents and swords—inked long before the agency rebranded as the KGB.

“These reels are the genealogical gold standard,” Pulch says. “Yet 90% of the visitors are family historians, not counter-intelligence guys.” He clicks on a red-tabbed spreadsheet he compiled: every FSB/KGB surname that appears in the reels, cross-indexed with today’s Russian corporate registries. “Same surnames pop up on the boards of defence contractors. Memory is hereditary.”

IV. Stop 3 – Harvard Yard, Cambridge

We jump to the Cold War Studies archive.

Here the crown jewel is a 639-page KGB internal history, never meant for outsiders. Pulch scrolls to page 417: a chart of “Agent Networks in NATO Countries, 1975-1985.” Codenames like “Dynamo” and “Sapphire” sit beside columns labelled “Source Access” and “Compromise Risk.” One entry, “Source G-10,” is annotated “Spouse employed U.S. Senate staff.” Pulch freezes the frame. “That’s still a live cable, my friend.”

He forwards me a zipped copy. I ask whether hosting it is legal. “Harvard hosts it,” he replies. “I just point.”

V. Stop 4 – The Churchill Archive, Cambridge (UK)

The Mitrokhin haul is less orderly—25,000 pages of handwritten notes, photographed in haste after the archivist defected in 1992. Pulch’s contribution is a searchable index: 4,300 named agents, 1,200 operations, 47 countries.

He lingers on “Operation PANDORA,” a 1974 plan to hide explosives in West German churches. The margin reads: “Await order from Centre—likely during NATO exercise.” Pulch’s footnote: “Check calendar for 1974 NATO REFORGER.” He did; the dates overlap. “Coincidence is a luxury item,” he says.

VI. Stop 5 – Back to Moscow, Virtually

No tour ends without the source. Pulch pulls up the FSB Central Archive’s public-facing portal—little more than a postal address and a pdf application form. Since 2020 he has filed 112 requests; four yielded documents, all post-1953. The most recent is a 1963 memo rehabilitating a Gulag linguist who once translated for Kim Philby.

“Russia’s archival window is cracked, not open,” he says. “But every denial gives me metadata—what they still fear.”

VII. The Business Model

Pulch claims the blog nets “maybe pocket change” in referral fees. His real income, he admits, comes from bespoke research: €2,000 for a due-diligence memo, €5,000 for an “asset trace” on a Russian oligarch. He shows me a 2024 invoice redacted to a single line: “KGB surname cross-check—30 hours.”

Is he worried about retaliation? He taps a 2019 German intelligence bulletin taped to the wall warning of “Russian hostile activity against open-source researchers.” Below it hangs a postcard: the Kremlin at sunset, postmark Sochi. No message. “I collect souvenirs,” he smiles.

VIII. The Take-away

As the screen fades to black, Pulch offers a coda. He produces a fresh thumb drive—orange, no label—and drops it in my hand. “Your flight reading,” he says. Inside are 1.8 gigabytes: every FSB and KGB file he has harvested since January, sorted by year, by agency, by blood type where listed.

The modern Kremlin, he argues, is not a black box; it is a palimpsest—each new agency writing over the last, never quite erasing what came before. “If you know where to look,” he says, ushering me out, “the past clicks ‘refresh’ every morning.”

Outside, Berlin’s drizzle has turned to sleet. I pocket the drive and hail a cab. Somewhere in Moscow, an FSB archivist is locking a steel door. The lock is new; the key is old.

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