Overview

Described by the FBI as 'The most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source'. For twelve years, at enormous personal risk, Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled material from one of the world's most secret archives. Reveals the identities of the KGB's top British Female agent, Melita Norwood, and the corrupt Scotland Yard officer who became a 'Romeo Spy' on four continents among many others. Its astonishing revelations sent shockwaves through Whitehall and led to the biggest review of British security services since Spycatcher.

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Author:   Christopher Andrew ,  Vasili Mitrokhin
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780140284874

ISBN 10:   0140284877
Pages:   1040
Publication Date:   27 July 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

"The Mitrokhin archive; from Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU; the great illegals; the magnificent five; terror; war; the grand alliance; victory; from war to Cold War; the main adversary - part 1, North American illegals in the 1950s; the main adversary - part 2, walk-ins and legal residencies in the early Cold War; the main adversary - part 3, illegals after ""Abel""; the main adversary -part 4, walk-ins and legal residencies in the later Cold War; political warfare - active measures and the main adversary; progress operations - part 1, crushing the Prague spring; progress operations - part 2, spying on the Soviet Bloc; the KGB and Western communist parties; Eurocommunism; ideological subversion -part 1, the war against the dissidents; SIGINT in the Cold War; special tasks - part 1, from Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev; special tasks - part 2, the Andropov era and beyond; Cold War operations against Britain - part 1, after the magnificent five; Cold War operations against Britain - part 2, after operation FOOT; the Federal Republic of Germany; France and Italy during the Cold War - agent penetration and active measures; the penetration and persecution of the Soviet churches; the Polish Pope and the rise of Solidarity; the Polish crisis and the crumbling of the Sovier Bloc; conclusion - from the one-party state to the Putin Presidency - the role of Russian intelligence; appendices."

Reviews

Conclusive account of Soviet spying, mainly during the Cold War. Andrew, expert on the subject, summarizes in this vast, enthralling book the contents of six big boxes of notes, smuggled out of the KGB's offices by its chief archivist, Mikrokhin, who retired in 1984 and defected - with his boxes - in 1992. The spies ranged from Melita Norwood, who passed out atomic secrets undetected for 40 years to Tom Driberg, former chairman of the Labour Party. The areas covered include the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. Full scholarly support places each spy in historical context; a lot of history will have to be rewritten. (Kirkus UK)

Author Information

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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