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Intourist

Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. Allegations of security-service links and surveillance

    Historical scholarship and commentary have associated Intourist with Soviet security institutions and described foreign travel through the organization as subject to routine surveillance and extensive state control. A former GRU officer, Viktor Suvorov, stated that Intourist was run by the KGB; the supplied material does not independently establish the full scope or organizational details of that claim.

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