The sword and the shield : the Mitrokhin Archive and the secret history of the KGB / Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrew, Christopher M.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitrokhin, Vasili, 1922-2004.

Mitrokhin, Vasili.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History--Sources.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

History.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991.

Politics and government.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 700 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

Mitrokhin Archive : the KGB in Europe and the West

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [1999]

Summary:

The Sword and the Shield gives us by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe. It is based on an unprecedented, top-secret archive described by the FBI as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source". Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB. In 1972 he was made responsible for moving these archives, including all the files on the KGB's deep-cover operatives, to a new a headquarters outside Moscow. Unknown to his superiors, however, Mitrokhin spent over a decade making transcripts of these highly classified files, which he daily smuggled out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor. As a result, no one who spied for the Soviet Union at any point between the Bolshevik Revolution and the 1980s can now be sure that his or her secrets are safe. Christopher Andrew has had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. Supplementing this treasure trove of KGB secrets with extensive research in other archives, he has written an extraordinary book which forces us to acknowledge that there was indeed an enemy -- and that he was very much in our midst.

Contents:

The Mitrokhin archive

From Lenin's Checka to Stalin's OGPU

The great illegals

The magnificient 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

Ideological subversion: Part 2. The victory of 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 Soviet Bloc

Conclusion: from the one-party state to the Yeltsin presidency.

Notes:

"First Edition."

"Designed by Victoria Kuskowski."

Includes bibiographical references (pages [669]-682) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has pages marked with post-its, underlines and marginal marks.

ISBN:

0465003109 :

OCLC:

42368608