The Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB in Europe and the West - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0140295593 ISBN 13 : 9780140295597

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Mitrokhin Archive tells for the first time in full the startling story of Soviet attempts to infiltrate the West. Working from Vasili Mitrokhin's archive and his own unrivalled expertise in the history of intelligence, Christopher Andrew has created an extraordinary picture of a USSR committed to covert activity at home and abroad to maintain Communism. From technological espionage to the cultivation of agents of influence, the KGB's methods ranged from financial inducements through sexual blackmail to assassination as they pursued their aims. What emerges is a state apparatus devoted to - even obsessed by - gathering information yet quite incapable of analysing it realistically.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University. His authorised history of MI5 will be published by Penguin in 2009. Vasili Mitrokhin was a former senior officer of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence service whose career spanned the period between 1948 and 1984. He defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 and died in 2004.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• ISBN 10: 0140295593
• ISBN 13: 9780140295597
• Reliure: Broché