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The Mitrokhin Archive II

Christopher Andrew
The Mitrokhin Archive II Book PDF

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141977980

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The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times) When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. The Mitrokhin Archive II reveals in full the secrets of this remarkable cache, showing for the first time the astonishing extent of the KGB's global power and influence. 'The long-awaited second tranche from the KGB archive ... co-authored by our leading authority on the secret machinations of the Evil Empire' Sunday Times 'Stunning ... the stuff of legend ... a unique insight into KGB activities on a global scale' Spectator 'Headline news ... as great a credit to the scholarship of its author as to the dedication and courage of its originator' Sunday Telegraph 'There are gems on every page' Financial Times

The Mitrokhin Archive

Christopher Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin
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Author : Christopher Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141966465

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The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin Pdf

'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The Times For years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his family dacha. When he was exfiltrated to the West he took with him what the FBI called 'the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. This extraordinary bestselling book is the result. 'Co-authored in a brilliant partnership by Christopher Andrew and the renegade Soviet archivist himself ... This is a truly global exposé of major KGB penetrations throughout the Western world' The Times 'This tale of malevolent spymasters, intricate tradecraft and cold-eyed betrayal reads like a cold war novel' Time 'Sensational ... the most informed and detailed study of Soviet subversive intrigues worldwide' Spectator 'The most comprehensive addition to the subject ever published' Sunday Telegraph

KGB Lexicon

Vasili Mitrokhin
KGB Lexicon Book PDF

Author : Vasili Mitrokhin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136343513

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KGB Lexicon by Vasili Mitrokhin Pdf

In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interest the general public as well as the specialist.

The Sword and the Shield

Christopher Andrew
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Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465010035

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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States.Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century.Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB's covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society.

The World Was Going Our Way

Christopher Andrew
The World Was Going Our Way Book PDF

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0465003133

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In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as “the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source.” Renowned historian Christopher Andrew had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. In 1999, they published the explosive bestseller The Sword and the Shield, which provided a complete account of KGB operations in Europe and America. In The World Was Going Our Way, Andrew now chronicles the KGB's extensive penetration of governments throughout the Third World-the battlefield on which the U.S.S.R. sought to achieve global supremacy. Andrew's definitive account fundamentally revises the history of the Cold War, and sheds new light on the state of the world today. The KGB worked tirelessly for decades to foster anti-Americanism in the developing world, making this book essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the intractable hostility America faces in the ongoing war on terror.

The Mitrokhin Archive

Christopher M. Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin
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Author : Christopher M. Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : UOM:39076002906316

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The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher M. Andrew,Vasili Mitrokhin Pdf

In 1992, the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost 30 years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, which in 1972 he was made responsible for moving to a new HQ just outside Moscow. He was congratulated by the head of foreign intelligence, Vladimir Kryuchkov (later the ringleader of the 1991 Moscow coup), for his success in transferring the archives and his devoted service to the state security authorities. Unknown to Kryuchkov, Mitrokhin - a secret dissident - spent over a decade noting and copying highly-classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor.

The Secret World

Christopher Andrew
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Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300240528

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“A comprehensive exploration of spying in its myriad forms from the Bible to the present day . . . Easy to dip into, and surprisingly funny.” —Ben Macintyre in The New York Times Book Review The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful WWII intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do not understand past mistakes are likely to repeat them. Intelligence is a prime example. At the outbreak of WWI, the grasp of intelligence shown by US President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was not in the same class as that of George Washington during the Revolutionary War and eighteenth-century British statesmen. In the first global history of espionage ever written, distinguished historian and New York Times–bestselling author Christopher Andrew recovers much of the lost intelligence history of the past three millennia—and shows us its continuing relevance. “Accurate, comprehensive, digestible and startling . . . a stellar achievement.” —Edward Lucas, The Times “For anyone with a taste for wide-ranging and shrewdly gossipy history—or, for that matter, for anyone with a taste for spy stories—Andrew’s is one of the most entertaining books of the past few years.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Remarkable for its scope and delightful for its unpredictable comparisons . . . there are important lessons for spymasters everywhere in this breathtaking and brilliant book.” —Richard J. Aldrich, Times Literary Supplement “Fans of Fleming and Furst will delight in this skillfully related true-fact side of the story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world.” —Financial Times Includes illustrations

KGB

Christopher M. Andrew,Oleg Gordievsky
KGB Book PDF

Author : Christopher M. Andrew,Oleg Gordievsky
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0060921099

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KGB by Christopher M. Andrew,Oleg Gordievsky Pdf

About the worldwide operations of the KGB.

Inside the KGB

Vladimir Kuzichkin
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Author : Vladimir Kuzichkin
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89087692919

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Inside the KGB by Vladimir Kuzichkin Pdf

From 1977 to 1982, KGB Major Vladimir Kuzichkin worked in the KGB's First Chief Directorate for illegal operations in Teheran. His defection led to this remarkable book, exposing for the first time the unit's methods and the myth of its invincibility. With an updated epilogue, featuring new information.

Life and Death under Stalin

Kees Boterbloem
Life and Death under Stalin Book PDF

Author : Kees Boterbloem
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773567597

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Life and Death under Stalin by Kees Boterbloem Pdf

The first Western scholar to have access to the records of the Communist Party of the Kalinin province, Boterbloem supplements archival evidence with published accounts and interviews with those who survived the last years of Stalin's life, taking us into their lives. Covering a wide range of topics, such as industry, agriculture, party affairs, repression, and education, Life and Death under Stalin looks at the complicated relationship between the political elite of the Communist Party, its rank and file members, and the Russian population during what was perhaps the grimmest period in Soviet history. The result is a fascinating study of how the postwar Stalinist regime dealt with those in the Kalinin Province, from ordinary Communist Party members and Red Army veterans to collective farmers and labour camp inmates.

The Defence of the Realm

Christopher Andrew
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Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 1155 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143178910

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To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has opened its archives for the first time to an independent historian. In The Defence of the Realm, Christopher Andrew reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British history, from its founding by Captain Kell of the British Army in October 1909 through two world wars and up to and including its present roles in counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. Full of dry humour, this fascinating and thoroughly engaging book describes how MI5 has been managed, its relationship with the government, and where it has triumphed and where it has failed. Readers will also discover the identities of previously unknown enemies of Britain and the West, whose activities the Service has brought to light. Above all, they'll understand the distinctive ethos and place of this hitherto extremely secretive organization within the U.K.

Defend the Realm

Christopher Andrew
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Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307272911

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For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy—until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs.

Spy Handler

Victor Cherkashin,Gregory Feifer
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Author : Victor Cherkashin,Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786724406

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Spy Handler by Victor Cherkashin,Gregory Feifer Pdf

Victor Cherkashin's incredible career in the KGB spanned thirty-eight years, from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In this riveting memoir, Cherkashin provides a remarkable insider's view of the KGB's prolonged conflict with the United States, from his recruitment through his rising career in counterintelligence to his prime spot as the KGB's number- two man at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Victor Cherkashin's story will shed stark new light on the KGB's inner workings over four decades and reveal new details about its major cases. Cherkashin's story is rich in episode and drama. He took part in some of the highest-profile Cold War cases, including tracking down U.S. and British spies around the world. He was posted to stations in the U.S., Australia, India, and Lebanon and traveled the globe for operations in England, Europe, and the Middle East. But it was in 1985, known as "the Year of the Spy," that Cherkashin scored two of the biggest coups of the Cold War. In April of that year, he recruited disgruntled CIA officer Aldrich Ames, becoming his principal handler. Refuting and clarifying other published versions, Cherkashin will offer the most complete account on how and why Ames turned against his country. Cherkashin will also reveal new details about Robert Hanssen's recruitment and later exposure, as only he can. And he will address whether there is an undiscovered KGB spy-another Hanssen or Ames-still at large. Spy Handler will be a major addition to Cold War history, told by one of its key participants.

Who Killed Shastri?

Vivek Agnihotri
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Author : Vivek Agnihotri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789388630610

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Who Killed Shastri? by Vivek Agnihotri Pdf

It was the time of the Cold War. After defeating Pakistan in the second biggest armed conflict since the Second World War, Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri arrived in Tashkent, former USSR, to sign a peace accord. After days of extended negotiations, the peace agreement was signed between India and Pakistan in the presence of Alexei Kosygin, the USSR Premier. Hours later, at 1.32 AM, Shastri died in his dacha. Abruptly. Mysteriously. Soon after, his official Russian butler and the Indian cook attached to the Indian ambassador were arrested by the Ninth Directorate of the KGB under the suspicion of poisoning Shastri. No post-mortem was done. No confession was achieved. There was no judicial enquiry ever. It's been 50 years since his death, and we still don't know the truth. Was it really a heart attack? Was he poisoned? Did the CIA kill him? Was it the KGB? Was it a state-sponsored murder? Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his motley team of inexperienced assistants turned whistle-blowers investigate the mystery behind Shastri's death and find themselves in a mirror-world where all and everybody is suspect. But they cannot remain distant, for the painful story of India touches their own lives as they discover how the country was put up for sale.

The Climate of Treason

Andrew Boyle
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Author : Andrew Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002221748

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Om de engelske kontraspioner Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby (Kim) og "Basil" ("the fifth man")