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 s.
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 s
