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In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major
historic and global dimensions, yet it took the entire world
totally by suprise. In this book, the authors interview dozens of
people who dealt with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, all of who admit
to having been caught off guard.
In the second half of 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an
event of major historic and global dimensions, yet this strategic
transformation of international relations took the entire world
totally by suprise - despite the fact that the West saw in the
Communist power an ideological foe and a major military
threat.
During the 1980s Western intelligence services spent about $40
billion every year, most of it to monitor the Soviet Union and its
satellites. Yet all of them, without exception, were taken by
surprise when the red empire crumbled. The American CIA, Britain's
MI-6, Germany's BND and the French DGSE all failed to comprehend
that the Soviet Union was approaching the end of its imperial
existence. A handful of honest intelligence professionals who
identified the signs of weakness and distress were shunted
aside.
The authors of this book interviewed dozens of people who dealt
with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, most of them in the United
States, some in Europe, the Soviet Union and Israel. The
interviewees included high ranking government officials, academics
and journalists, but mostly intelligence personnel. All admitted
having been caught off guard, but differed over the reasons for
their surprise, and who was responsible for it.
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