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The Sword and the Shield

The Sword and the Shield

The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

by Christopher Andrew
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/08/2000

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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 from any source. " Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGBs 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 KGBs 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 KGBs attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. * The KGBs use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D. C. , in the 1970s to intercept high-level U. S. government communications. * The KGBs 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.
ISBN:
9780465003129
9780465003129
Category:
Espionage & secret services
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-08-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Basic Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
736
Dimensions (mm):
235x152x48mm
Weight:
0.74kg
Christopher Andrew

Christopher Andrew is Britain's leading historian of intelligence, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University.

He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, Founding Co-Editor of Intelligence and National Security, former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries.

His fifteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive and The Mitrokhin Archive II, and a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.

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