Andrew / Gordievsky More Instructions from the Centre

Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-60241-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

During the decade that preceded Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. Unknown to the KGB, however, many of these highly classified documents were being secretly copied by Oleg Gordievsky, at that time not only a high-ranking KGB officer based in London but also a long-serving undercover agent for the British. The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors with a commentary by Christopher Andrew to set them in context, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrew, Christopher M.

Gordievsky, Oleg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The United States - the "Main Adversary"; military priorites; residency priorities - the case of Denmark; the Federal Republic of Germany; Albania; the Vatican; the Arctic, the Antarctic and the world's oceans; Africa; Asia; the Middle East; Zionism and Israel; ciphers and counter-intelligence; the threat from the "Main Adversary".