The sword and the shield: the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB
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A history of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe based on notes and transcripts made by Vasili Mitrokhin, a worker in the KGB's foreign intelligence archives, who was exfiltrated from Russia by the British Secret Intelligence Service in 1992.
Subjects
Subjects
Foreign relations
History
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History
Mitrokhin, Vasili
Mitrokhin, Vasili, -- 1922-2004
Politics and government
Secret service
Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources
History
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History
Mitrokhin, Vasili
Mitrokhin, Vasili, -- 1922-2004
Politics and government
Secret service
Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources
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Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History
Mitrokhin, Vasili, -- 1922-2004
Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources
Mitrokhin, Vasili, -- 1922-2004
Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History
Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources
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The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB
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The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB / Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB / Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin archive and the secret history of the KGB / Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
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The sword and the shield
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the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB
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Foreign relations
History
Intelligence service
Mitrokhin, Vasili
Politics and government
Secret service
History
Intelligence service
Mitrokhin, Vasili
Politics and government
Secret service
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