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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World by Christopher Andrew, Mitrokhin Vasili. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Basic Books, 2005. In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist. Unknown to his superiors, Mitrokhin had spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled out of the KGB archives. The FBI described the archive as "the greatest single cache of intelligence every received by the West." In The Sword and the Shield, Christopher Andrew revealed the secrets of the KGB's operations in the United States and Europe; now in The World Was Going Our Way, he has written the first comprehensive account of the KGB and its operations throughout the Third World. Our understanding of the contemporary world remains incomplete without taking into account the vast impact of the KGB in developing nations: Andrew reveals the names of political leaders on the KGB payroll as well as the KGB's successful penetration of numerous foreign governments. He also points to the many absurdities of KGB operations-such as agents attempting to a

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Author
Christopher Andrew, Mitrokhin Vasili.
Publisher
Avalon Publishing Group
Language
EN
ISBN
9780786722174
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Humanities

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