Valentin Korabelnikov

Valentin Korabelnikov

General of the Army Valentin Vladimirovich Korabelnikov (in _ru. Валентин Владимирович Корабельников, b. January 41946, in Tambov Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian military official.

Since May 1997 he has been the Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff, Russia's largest intelligence agency which commanded 25,000 Spetsnaz troops in 1997 of which many actively participated in the Chechen Wars.

He graduated from the Military-Diplomatic Academy of intelligence and traversed almost all the steps of the bureaucratic ladder in GRU [http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=4&issue_id=217&article_id=2507] .He has always been personally involved in operational work. He was reportedly ambushed by Chechen fighters and wounded [ [http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=761 Mossad Agents Eliminated in the Northern Caucasus ] ] .

In July 1999, he received an official acknowledgment from president Boris Yeltsin "for the significant contribution to settlement of the Kosovo War". He was a member of Russian delegation, led by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov that met with Slobodan Milosevic during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia [http://www.nwc.navy.mil/balkans/bc2m29p2.htm] .

He was a member of Commission on military-technical cooperation with foreign countries from September 1999 to November 2000.

External links

* [http://www.cdi.org/russia/265-17.cfm Smart and well trained people work with US] His interview
* [http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20061109/55488751.html President Putin visits new GRU headquarters]
* [http://www.peoples.ru/military/general/valentin_korabelnikov/ Another interview (Russian)]
* [http://www.anticompromat.ru/korabelnikov/korabelbio.html His biography (Russian)]


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