Aleksandr Mikhailovich Sakharovsky (Russian: Александр Михайлович Сахаровский; 3 September 1909 – 12 November 1983) was a Soviet general who was head of the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence) of the KGB[1] from 1955 to 1971.

In 1931 he was drafted into the Red Army for military service, and initially he was assigned to the 2nd Signals Regiment of Leningrad, but soon, recommended by the Komsomol, he was sent to study at the Lenin Military-Political Academy, graduating in October 1933.

By decision of the Political Directorate of the Red Army, he was then sent to the post of secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the 63rd Construction Battalion, which performed public works in Sovetskaya Gavan of the Far Eastern Territory.

The duties of Sakharovsky included the preparation of special groups to be sent behind enemy lines for sabotage and assassinations, as well as conducting defensive operations against German attempts at infiltration.

[4] He was later chief of the second Information committee (KI) department, then MGB adviser during the establishment of the Securitate, the secret police agency of Communist Romania.

Pacepa claimed Sakharovsky organized trainings for Palestinian militants on hijacking and bombing civilian airplanes[4] and published propaganda journals in Arabic, reprinting antisemitic fakes such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to fuel the Arabic-Israeli conflict.