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The Sword and the Shield (Paperback)
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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary
intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level
KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has
described, after close examination, as the "most complete and
extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence
in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's
secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its
worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked
in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly
classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally
succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive
out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the
Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations
concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main
target, of course, was the United States.Though there is top-secret
material on almost every country in the world, the United States is
at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating
revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of
the twentieth century.Among the topics and revelations explored
are: The KGB's covert operations in the United States and
throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB
files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost
certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB's
attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including
its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use
of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the
1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The
KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S.
aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations
against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years
before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as
U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including
several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York
society.
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