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During thirty-two years with the KGB, Oleg Kalugin enjoyed one of the most meteoric and illustrious careers in the history of the Soviet spy agency, so his dramatic break with the Communist Party and his advocacy of democratic reform provided a sensational end to an amazing career. Now, with this candid and ultimately moving autobiography, he becomes the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to tell his story. With a telling eye for detail, Oleg Kalugin takes the reader into the very heart of the Soviet spy apparatus at the peak of the defining event of our time - the Cold War. The First Directorate is nothing less than a full-scale personal account of a life in espionage. A Fulbright exchange student (and already a KGB officer), Kalugin came to America in 1958 and immediately recruited his first spy. As deputy station chief in Washington, he played a major role in handling American spy John Walker, as well as orchestrating a brazen attempt to bug the House Armed Services Committee. As chief of KGB Foreign Counter-intelligence, he helped rehabilitate the famous, broken-down British agent Kim Philby. He played a role in the assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov and worked in

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Author

Oleg Kalugin with Fen Montaigne

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312114268

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.95 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14