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Hardcover The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Book

ISBN: 0465003109

ISBN13: 9780465003105

The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

(Book #1 in the Mitrokhin Archive Series)

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Intelligence Bible

Prof. Andrew and Vissily Mitrokhin's book became an Intelligence Bible since the first day of publication and is an absolute MUST for every professional or anyone interested in the history of Soviet Intelligence Services. You never know when we get a chance to welcome Mitrokhin-2, real life is tuffer than Hollywood, and to get out of Russia with such an archive is a very big deal. I hear the authors are finalising part II...

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Dangers of Secret Police Directly Taken from KGB Archives

Anyone who is seriously interested in how to conduct government is the most responsible way should read this book. In addition, those who love spy stories, histories, and novels will be rewarded with many new details and perspectives on Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence activities since the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the 20th century.This book surprised me in several ways. First, I did not expect to learn...

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A great Cold War history

This book is a very clearly and interestingly written history of that part of the Cold War that does not normally appear in the media. There is a wealth of detail that will come as a surprise to many who have witnessed the events of the last half-century and wondered why some events have transpired.

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