Ace historian Christopher Andrew delivers what may well be the intelligence book of the century. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society..
KGB spies who successfully posed as U.
S.
KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. aerospace and technology corporations.
The KGB\'s attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.
S. government communications.
The KGB\'s use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.
C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.
S.
The KGB\'s attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader.
KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton.
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.
As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the Secret History of the twentieth century.
Though there is top-Secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list.
But the KGB\'s main target, of course, was the United States.
The Archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire Archive out of Moscow.
In 1992, a U.
S.
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.
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.
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. 40 halftones.
Including smuggled files from the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, this treasure trove proves that there was indeed an enemy--and that he was very much in our midst.
Ace historian Christopher Andrew delivers what may well be the intelligence book of the century
