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The Mitrokhin archive : the KGB in Europe and the West
Record details
- ISBN: 0713993588
- ISBN: 9780713993585
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Physical Description:
xx, 995 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 1999.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 905-928) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-91 -- 1. The Mitrokhin Archive -- 2. From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU -- 3. The Great Illegals -- 4. The Magnificent Five -- 5. Terror -- 6. War -- 7. The Grand Alliance -- 8. Victory -- 9. From War to Cold War -- 10. The Main Adversary -- Part 1: North American Illegals in the 1950's -- 11. The Main Adversary -- Part 2: Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War -- 12. The Main Adversary -- Part 3: Illegals after "Abel" -- 13. The Main Adversary -- Part 4: Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War -- 14. Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary -- 15. PROGRESS Operations -- Part 1: Crushing the Prague Spring -- 16. PROGRESS Operations -- Part 2: Spying on the Soviet Bloc -- 17. The KGB and Western Communist Parties -- 18. Eurocommunism -- 19. Ideological Subversion -- Part 1: The War Against the Dissidents -- 20. Ideological Subversion -- Part 2: The Victory of the Dissidents -- 21. SIGINT in the Cold War -- 22. Special Tasks -- Part 1: From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev -- 23. Special Tasks -- Part 2: The Andropov Era and Beyond -- 24. Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 1: After the "Magnificent Five" -- 25. Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 2: After Operation FOOT -- 26. The Federal Republic of Germany -- 27. France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures -- 28. The Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches -- 29. The Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity -- 30. The Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc -- 31. Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency -- App. A. KGB Chairmen, 1917-26 -- App. B. Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99 -- App. C. The Organization of the KGB -- App. D. The Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate -- App. E. The Organization of a KGB Residency |
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| Topic Heading: | Secret service - Great Britain. KGB - History. Mitrokhin, Vasili - Biography. Espionage, Soviet - History - 20th century. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti - History. |
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Summary:
"In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West has remained secret until the publication of this book. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB. In 1972 he was made responsible for moving these entire archives, including all the files on the KGB's deep-cover operatives, to new headquarters 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 "irreproachable service to the state security authorities."" "Unknown to Kryuchkov, however, Mitrokhin spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of these highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor." "This first volume of The Mitrokhin Archive gives an extraordinary insight into the KGB's penetration of the West, its secret links with Western communist parties, its covert role in maintaining the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, and its brutal war against dissidents inside and outside the Soviet Union, all of which wer on a sccale and of a variety wich we have never previously realized."--Jacket.
