0343 - KGB at Farbrengen - Taking Pictures of the Crowd

00:00 There was a rumor circulating in seven seventy in the youths and in the beginning of the Hoffs, in the fifties and the beginning of the sixty-sixties, that agents of the KGB come to the big fabrengens. And the reason was, the rumor was that since this was not so long after the Lubavitch Hasidim escaped from Russia, Tav Shin kuf, Tav Shin zayin, this is nineteen forty-six, forty-seven, the Russian government said that they will catch the people, and they will bring them back to Russia. And the rumor was that they sent agents to the fabrengens to see who's there. I remember one of the fabrengens, a wiggy fabregen, and this was in the beginning of the Choffs, that there was a person there that even to me he looked suspicious. I saw he pushed himself up closer to the front, and he took out from his pocket, it looked like a pen, but he started snapping pictures with that pen. It wasn't really a pen. It was the size of a pen, looked like a pen, but it was a camera, which they said that this is a camera that the spies used those years. This was a ca-camera that the spies would use. And he started snapping pictures of the crowd. He didn't take pictures of the Rebbe. He took pictures of the Elam, and he took pictures from all corners. He-- Where he was standing, he took from the right side and the left side and all corners to take pictures of all the people.

01:15 Now, we know that many times by Fabregen, there would be people from the outside, some of them even not from people, would come with a camera, and they would test snap pictures of the Rebbe. He wanted-- They came to the Fabregen, and they wanted to take pictures of the Rebbe. But this person was not taking pictures of the Rebbe. He was taking pictures of the crowd, and it looked suspicious. Then, if I remember correctly, and I'm not a hundred percent sure, something that the Rebbe motioned or something that the Rebbe said, I don't know. It look... I think so. That's what I remember. And one of the Maskirim came over to, I think, Absalom Guerari, and they were shushkenza, they were talking, and then he walked over to him, and they got him out. They told him to leave and asked him to leave. I think that the Rebbe was also involved, or the Rebbe made note of it or something. That I can't be a hundred percent sure. Maybe there are people who remember this, this more clearly. So I don't remember exactly if the Rebbe was involved or... But I do think the Rebbe said something. I'm not sure. But then they made sure that he leaves. But the rumor was that this was an agent of the KGB, and he came to take pictures of the crowd, which he knew that a lot of these people were the ones that escaped from Russia in the years of Tav Shin kuf and Tav

02:26 Shin zayin.