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The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB PDF

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THE AND THE BY CHRISTOPHER ANDREW THEOPHILED ELCASSE AND THE MAKING OF THE ENTENTEC ORDIALE THE FIRST WORLD WAR: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES (VOLUME 19 OF THE HAMLYN HISTORY OF THE WORLD) FRANCEO VERSEAS: THEG REAT WAR AND THE CLIMAX OF FRENCHI MPERIAL EXPANSION( WITHA .S.K ANYA-FORSTNER) THE MISSING DIMENSION: GOVERNMENTS AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTIETHC ENTURY( WITHD AVIDD ILKS) HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE: THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY CODEBREAKING AND SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, 1900-1 945 (WITH JEREMY NOAKES} KGB: THE INSIDE STORY OF ITS FOREIGN OPERATIONS FROM LENIN TO GORBACHEV (WITH OLEG GORDIEVSKY) INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CENTRE: TOP SECRET FILES ON KGB FOREIGN OPERATIONS, 1975-1 985 (PUBLISHED IN THE USA AS: COMRADE KRYUCHKOV'S INSTRUCTIONS) (WITH OLEG GORDIEVSKY) MORE 'INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CENTRE': TOP SECRETF ILES ON KGB GLOBAL OPERATIONS, 1975-1 985 (WITH OLEG GORDIEVSKY) FORT HEP RESIDENT'SE YES ONLY: SECRET INTELLIGENCE AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY FROM WASHINGTON TO BUSH ETERNAL VIGILANCE? FIFTY YEARS OF THE CIA [WITH RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES) This Page Intentionally Left Blank A N D BASIC E BOOKS A MEMBER OF THE PERSEUSB OOKSG ROUP Copyright 0 1999 by Christopher Andrew Introduction to the Paperback Edition0 2 001 Published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in thec ase of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For infor- mation, address Basic Books,1 0 East 53rdS treet, NewY ork, NY 10022-5299. Unless otherwise credited, photos are from the authors’ collections. Designed by Victoria Kuskowski A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-465-00312-5 01 02/10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 F- IN MEMORY OF "MA" This Page Intentionally Left Blank CONTENTS Abbreviations andAcronyms xi The Evolutiono f the KGB, r917-rpy xv The Transliteration of Russian Names xvii Foreword xix Introduction to the Paperback Edition xxi 1 TheM itrokhin Archive 1 2 FromL enin’sC hekat o Stalin’s OGPU 23 3 TheG reat Illegals 42 4 TheM agnificentF ive 56 5 Terror 68 6 War 89 7 TheG rand Alliance 1 04 8 Victory 122 9 From War to Cold War 137 1 o The Main Adversary Part r: North AmericanI llegals in ther 950 j. 1 62 1 1 The Main Adversary Part 2: Walk-ins and LegaRl esidencies in the Early Cold War 176 12 The MainA dversary Fart3: Illegals aftey Xbel” 1 90 1 3 The Main Adversary Part 4: Walk-ins and LegaRl esidencies in the Later Cold War 203 14 Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary 2 24 15 PROGRESSO perations Part I: Crushing the Prague Spring 247 16 PROGRESS Operations Part 2: Spying on the SovietB loc 262

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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 fr
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