Andronov, Iona Ionovich

Iona Andronov graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University (IVY) with a degree in oriental historian ^[2] .

Since 1958, he worked in the weekly New Time (literary employee, department head, special correspondent, and permanent correspondent).

• In 1964 and 1965, the correspondent of "New time" in India, Nepal, Indonesia.
• At the end of 1966, he was a special correspondent in China during the so-called Cultural Revolution by Mao Zedong.
• 1966-1971 - Special correspondent for the wars in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
• Since 1972 - correspondent in the United States.
  • In 1973, he was the only Soviet correspondent in South Dakota among the rebels on the reservation of the American Indians.
• In 1979, he was a correspondent for the Literary Newspaper at the Civil War in Nicaragua .
• Since 1981 - front-line correspondent in Afghanistan, then a correspondent for Literary Newspaper in the United States.
• He was a newspaper correspondent or a seconded deputy of the Supreme Council of Russia in Japan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Costa Rica, Latvia.
• In 1990, he was elected People's Deputy of the Russian Federation, member of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations; was one of Yeltsin’s one hundred proxies in the 1991 presidential election.
• 1991-1992 - Advisor to the Vice President A. Rutsky on international relations.
• In 1986, the film “The Man Who Interviewed” was released according to the script of Andronov.
• In 1988, he created in New York, together with the famous artist Mikhail Shemyakin, who emigrated from the USSR, the International Committee for the Salvation of Soviet Prisoners of War in Afghanistan , and then the Moscow People’s Committee for the Release of Prisoners of War .
• Since 1989 - one of the founders and chairman of the All-Union Association of Families of Soviet Prisoners of War, he negotiated their release with the leaders of the Afghan opposition, the leadership of Afghanistan and Pakistan ^[3] .
• At the VII Congress of People's Deputies in December 1992, he voted to put on the agenda the issue of no confidence in Prime Minister Gaidar and to prohibit the sale of land to foreigners. He published information about the allegedly secret Kremlin project of transferring the South Kuril Islands to the Japanese ^[4] .
• In 1994 - consultant to the Credentials Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
• In January 1993, he headed the delegation of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and the Committee to facilitate the return to Russia of the former deputy commander of the Riga Special Purpose Police Detachment (OMON) S. Parfyonov. After the decree of September 21, 1993 on the dissolution of parliament, he took part in the defense of the White House.

Author of several books on the CIA and the FBI , on the war in Afghanistan ^[5] .

• In the wolf’s wake . - M.: True, 1983 .-- 304 p.
• Murder without retaliation. Reporting from America. - M .: Politizdat, 1987 .-- 224 p.
• My war . - M.: Business World 2000, 1999. - 416 p. - ISBN 5-93681-001-1 .
• Russian love Yankees Joe. Memoirs of the story. - M.: Sport and Culture - 2000, 2011. - 208 p.

Jonah Andronov was awarded the Order of Honor , order and medal of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

• Wife: Valentina Petrovna (09.25.1934).
• Sister: Marina Andronova (02.26.1936).

In 2001, referring to a secret note by the chairman of the KGB, Yu. V. Andropov, in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU , one of the leaders of the Soviet human rights movement, Yuri Yarim-Agaev, accused Iona Andronov of being a KGB staff member and was a “professional Soviet misinformer” ^{[ 6]} . Another Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, previously pointed out Andronov’s long-term cooperation with the KGB ^[7] . An indirect confirmation of Andronov’s involvement in the KGB is his work as a correspondent for the New Time magazine. According to the author of the book “The KGB Today,” J. Barron, this magazine was used as a legal cover for foreign agents of the Soviet special services, and twelve of its fourteen branches abroad were staffed by KGB officers who had undergone special journalism training ^[8] . Andronov repeatedly denied his involvement in the KGB. Andronov is negatively mentioned by Andrei Karaulov in the book “Russian Sun”. But in a lawsuit to defend honor, dignity and business reputation, filed in 2001 with the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, Andronov accused Karaulov of libel and stated: “... with all due respect to the state security agencies that perform useful functions to ensure state security and society, as a journalist, I was neither an officer, nor an employee of the USSR State Security Committee, nor an agent, nor an informant of special services ” ^[9] .

• Vandenko, A. Hold the thief! // New Look : newspaper. - M. , 1992. - No. 28 . - S. 4 .
• Jonah from a competent womb // Capital. - 1993. - No. 18 .
• Nikolay Gulbinsky . The man who was not recruited // Look : newspaper. - M. , 2001. - No. 9 . - S. 4 .
• Interview in 2001, Chuyanova, E. Iona Andronov: “Afghanistan will be too tough for them // Hour: newspaper. - 2001. - No. 237 (1263) .