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The KGB, or Committee for State Security, is the principal instrument through which the Soviet Union is ruled and Soviet foreign policy is executed. As such, it impinges on the lives of nearly 250 million individuals in the Soviet Union and countless others in nations affected by the Soviet Union’s presence. However, until now, there has been no definitive book that explains precisely what the KGB is, all that it does, and precisely how it exercises its largely unseen influence upon the world. Therefore, this comprehensive work, the result of four years of research, fills a significant void in the literature of contemporary affairs. The author has enlisted the cooperation of numerous Western security services and former KGB officers, many of whom had never before talked to any journalist. As a consequence, KGB is filled with unique information and factual revelations of headline proportions. The book discloses: • how the KGB repeatedly entered one of the most guarded of all American installations and stole hundreds of secret documents so important they were rushed to Moscow for Khrushchev’s personal perusal; • how a Soviet diplomat intimately involved in intrigues aimed at establis
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- Author
- John, 1930- Barron
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Press; distributed by E. P. Dutton
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780883490099
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Science
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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