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The official historian of MI5, Christopher Andrew, wrote two books, The Sword and the Shield (1999) and The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (2005), based on material from the Mitrokhin Archives. [4] The books provide details about many of the Soviet Union's clandestine intelligence operations around the world.
Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books (2005) hardcover, 677 pages ISBN 0-465-00311-7; Andrew, Christopher; — (27 July 2000). The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. Allen Lane History. Vol. 1. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-028487-7. OCLC 42606302.
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (2005), The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, New York: Basic Books. Anthony Cave Brown and Charles B. MacDonald (1981), On a Field of Red: The Communist International and the Coming of World War II. Baynard Kendrick (1959), Hot Red Money, New York: Dodd, Mead.
The KGB, which emerged from the NKVD, was based in a huge closed-off complex in Berlin-Karlshorst from 1953 onwards. [9] This complex was later expanded to become the KGB's largest field office abroad. [10] The KGB coordinated actions by Soviet agents from here, including assassination attempts in West Germany.
Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy (and a later edition published as Dezinformatsia: The Strategy of Soviet Disinformation) is a non-fiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the KGB during the Soviet Union period, as part of their active measures tactics.
A Time magazine article in 1983, reported that the KGB was the world's most effective information-gathering organization. [34] It operated legal and illegal espionage residencies in target countries where a legal resident gathered intelligence while based at the Soviet embassy or consulate, and, if caught, was protected from prosecution by ...
Putin’s five-year sojourn in Dresden, which abruptly ended in 1990, has come under renewed scrutiny as the 70-year-old Russian president prosecutes an increasingly brutal and bloody war in ...
John Barron, "KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents",Reader's Digest Press (1974), ISBN 0-88349-009-9 Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew , The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World , Basic Books (2005) hardcover, 677 pages ISBN 0-465-00311-7