The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGBThe 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 KGB's 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 KGB's 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 KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB's 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. |
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THREE THE GREAT ILLEGALS | |
FOUR THE MAGNIFICENT FIVE | |
FIVE TERROR | |
SIX | |
SEVEN THE GRAND ALLIANCE | |
SIXTEEN PROGRESS OPERATIONS | |
EIGHTEEN EUROCOMMUNISM | |
TWENTY IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION | |
TWENTY TWO SPECIAL TASKS | |
TWENTY THREE SPECIAL TASKS | |
TWENTY FOUR COLD WAR OPERATIONS AGAINST BRITAIN | |
TWENTY FIVE COLD WAR OPERATIONS AGAINST BRITAIN | |
TWENTY SIX THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY | |
EIGHT VICTORY | |
NINE FROM WAR TO COLD | |
TEN THE MAIN ADVERSARY | |
ELEVEN THE MAIN ADVERSARY | |
TWELVE THE MAIN ADVERSARY | |
THIRTEEN THE MAIN ADVERSARY | |
FOURTEEN POLITICAL WARFARE | |
FIFTEEN PROGRESS OPERATIONS | |
TWENTY SEVEN FRANCE AND ITALY DURING THE COLD | |
TWENTY EIGHT THE PENETRATION AND PERSECUTION OF THE SOVIET CHURCHES | |
TWENTY NINE THE POLISH POPE AND THE RISE OF SOLIDARITY | |
FROM THE ONEPARTY STATE | |
APPENDIX A KGB CHAIRMEN 191791 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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