About this title: This book is based on secret documents (reportedly about 6 trunks' worth) which were smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin, who worked in the KGB archive. Historian and intelligence expert Christopher Andrew tells of Mitrokhin's disenchantment with the KGB and his effort to to build his own secret archive of information, which he smuggled out each day in his shoes and which he stored in the basement of his dacha.These high-level documents are revealing of the range of KGB operations in Europe and the United States over decades, including intelligence interception and covert operations. ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780465003129ISBN:0465003125
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780465003105ISBN:0465003109
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780465003105ISBN:0465003109
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999-09-23
ISBN-13:9780465003105ISBN:0465003109
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780465003129ISBN:0465003125
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"The real-life stories behind spies and espionage throughout the USSR's long, long history. A surprisingly fascinating 600-page romp drawing mostly on one source: an archive of the KGB's most secret files, painstakingly assembled over a 12-year period by a secret dissident KGB archivist and only smuggled out of Russia in 1992. It's really cool to think that hardly any of this information ever would have come to light without the courageous daily work of Mitrokhin, who hand-copied thousands of pages of KGB top-secret reports and hid them under his house and in his attic for years."
"How to approach this subject without turning off potential readers of this review? The key problem with any attempt to study the history of covert operations is burdened with the obvious caveat that everybody involved has lived a life of deception and prevarication.
Mr Andrew and Mr Gordievsky offer themselves as purveyors of Truth. I will offer an example of their unreliability: On page 622 they offer a set of four exemplary successes by the KGB in stealing western technology.
The Blackjack bomber is offered up as a copy of the B1; www.militaryfactory.com isjust one of many web pages that offers public record discussions refuting this claim.
Then they write in the same paragraph, "the RYAD series of computers plagerised from IBM originals". It is very much a part of the public record that the Soviets bought the OS for this series on the open market, where it was peddled globally in clone form by Amdahl Corporation. I'm sure IBM takes a dim view, but if this is an example of KGB prowess, no wonder they're out of business.
So it goes for the entire book. The only way this book could be useful to a serious historical researcher is by using names and dates as starting points for searches for more reliable sources."
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