KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer's Handbook

472 Pages·2002·4.293 MB·English

by  Vasiliy Mitrokhin (editor)

KGB LEXICON
KGB LEXICON
The Soviet Intelligence Officer's
Handbook
Edited and introducedb y
V ASILIY MITROKHIN
With a Forewordb y
PeterH ennessy
FRANKCASS
LONDON • NEW YORK
First Publishedi n 2002 in Great Britain by
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KGB lexicon: The Soviet IntelligenceO fficer's Handbook
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gosudarstvennoby ezopasnosti2 . Intelligences ervice-
Soviet Union - Dictionaries 3. Secrets ervice- Soviet Union
- Dictionaries
I. Mitrokhin, Vasiliy, 1922-
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KGB lexicon: the Soviet intelligenceo fficer's handbook/ edited and
introducedb y Vasily
Mitrokhin.
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ISBN 0-7146-5257-1 - ISBN 0-7146-8235-7( pbk.)
1. Intelligences ervice-SovietU nion-Dictionaries.2 . Soviet Union. Komitet
gosudarstvennoyb ezopasnosti.I . Mitrokhin, V. N. (Vasiliy Nikitich)
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Contents
Forewordb y PeterH ennessy IX
Acknowledgements Xl
Note on Transliteration XU
List of Abbreviations
Xlll
Introduction xv
PART I IntelligenceL exicon 1
PART II Counter-IntelligenceL exicon 147
Index 421
Foreword
Those who wish to penetrate the inner mind of a clandestine
institution, whetherf or counter-intelligenceo r scholarly purposes,
must first get their hands on the secret ruleb ooks that govern its
most private practices.F or the hardestt argetst his is rarely possible
and no target camet oughert han the RussianI ntelligenceS ervice.
Now, thanks to Vasiliy Mitrokhin, the KGB Lexicon is an open
book for WesternI ntelligence, studentso f intelligence history and
the general reader alike. It representsa windfall of a rarity and a
grimnesst hat sets it apart as a piece of primary historical material.
For, to borrow Mr Mitrokhin's own imagery in conversation
with me, the world illuminated within thesep agesr epresentedth e
darkesto f 'dark spheresf' or thosew ho neededt o defendt hemselves
againsti ts purposes.L aid out here in relentlessd etail is the official
mind of Soviet states ecurityw hich governedt he lives and practices
of the secret servantso f the USSR in a manner that left little to
chance.
Each page is as dispiriting as it is revealing -a window into a
world of demons where for every demon there is a drill or an
instruction. The KGB Lexicon is best read in instalmentsw ith a
stiffish drink by one'ss ide. And, wheny ou reacht he end, raise your
glass in merciful recognition that the compilers of this work and
thoset hey servedd id not prevail!
PeterH ennessy
Attlee Professoro f ContemporaryB ritish History,
QueenM ary, University of London,
Guy Fawkes'D ay, 2001
Acknowledgements
A good number of well-wishers were to be found who helped the
dictionariest o come out. To them all, and to each one individually,
I extend my profound gratitude, my heartfelt thanks and will not
forget their kindness.T hey undoubtedlyd eservet he reader'sh ighest
approval.
I also recogniset he painstakingw ork of the translator;I express
my sincere appreciation of his English translation of the KGB
Lexicon and its Introduction.
Note on Transliteration
The entriesi n this lexicon follow the order in which they appeari n
the original Russian. This is becauset he sequenceo f the Russian
Cyrillic alphabet is different from the sequenceo f the Roman
alphabeti n which English is written.
There 1S no single internationally accepted system of
transliterationf rom Russiant o English. The system used in these
lexicons broadly follows the methodu sed by the BBC Monitoring
Service,w here the Russianh ard and soft signs, sometimesr endered
as an apostrophein other transliterations ystems, aren ot indicated.
Russian English Russian English
A a A a IT IT p p
B 6 B b P p R r
B B V v C c S s
r r G g T T T t
,0; ,II; D d y y U u
E e Ye ye, e'~ <I> <P F f
E e Yo yo, o'~* X x Kh kh
)K )I{ Zh zh 1.1, u; Ts ts
3 3 Z z q q Ch ch
IT II I i, yi'~'~'~ ill III Sh sh
m
fi H Y Y ru; Shch shch
K K K k hI hI Y y
n J1 L I :9 :9 E e
M M M m IO JO Yu yu
H H N n 51 51 Ya ya
o o
o o
* Yeasi nitial letter, or after vowel, hard and soft signs.
** Yo except after ch, sh, shch.
**'f Yi after soft sign.
List of Abbreviations
AND (Agenturno-nablyudatelnoydee lo) - agentm onitoring file
AOO (Agenturno-operativnayao bstanovka)- agent-operationasl ituation
BREM (Byro po delam russkoy emigratsii) - Bureau for the Affairs of Russian
Emigresi n Manchuria
DAR (Delo agenturnoyr azrabotki) - agentc ultivation! developmentf ile
DKS (Dokumentk odirovannoys vyazi) - encodedc ommunicationsd ocument
DLB (Dead letter box)
DOP (Delo operativnoyp erepiski) - operationalc orrespondencefil e
DOR (Delo operativnoyr azrabotki) - operationalc ultivation/developmenftil e
ECB (EvangelicalC hristian baptists)
GPU (Gosudarstvennoypeo liticheskoyeu praveleniyep ri NKVD RSFSR)- State
political directoratea ttachedt o the People'sc ommissariatf or internal affairs of
the RussianS oviet FederalS ocialist Republic.
GRU (Glavnoye razvedyvatelnoyeu pravleniye generalnogos htaba Sovetskoy
armii) - The Chief Intelligence Directorate
GUGB (Glavnoye upravleniye gosudarstvennoyb ezopasnosti) - Chief
Directorateo f StateS ecurity
INO (lnostrannyyo tdel) - Foreign Department
ISZ (Iskusstvennyys putnik zemli) - artificial earth satellite
KOMSOMOL (VsesoyuznyyL eninskiy KommunisticheskiyS oyuz Molodyozhi)
- the All-Union Leninist CommunistU nion of Youth
KPP (Kontrolno-propusknoyp unkt) - borderc rossingc ontrol point
KPP (Kontrolno-proverochnyyp unkt) - monitoring control point
KPSS (Kommunisticheskayap artiya SovetskogoS oyuza)- the CommunistP arty
of the Soviet Union (often referredt o simply as 'the Party'
KRO (Kontrrazvedyvatelnyyo tdel) - Counter-intelligenceD epartment
KSP (Kontrolno-sledovayap olosa)- surveillancep lougheds trip
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