Basic Books, 1999. — 1860 p. Christopher Andrews new book is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: the discovery of a treasure-trove of highly classified documents which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source. Though there is top-secret material on almost...
London: Biteback Publishing, 2013. — 652 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84954-689-8 "O, this fatal word SMERSH! … Everyone froze from fear when he heard it." Nikolai Nikoulin, WWII veteran, 2007 "We fought not for the Motherland and not for Stalin. We had no choice: the Germans were in front of us, and SMERSH was behind." Yelena Bonner, WWII veteran, widow of Academician Andrei Sakharov,...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. The relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of "daughter" organizations through which Moscow terrorized the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after World War II. Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about its daughter organizations. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB...
Presidio Press, 1989. — 344 p. This is one of the few books on Soviet Special Operations Forces (SOF) collectively known as Spetsnaz. This book covers Soviet Army and Navy SOF in excellent detail. This is an older book printed in 1990 being the last book to be printed on the Spetsnaz prior to the end of the Cold War in 1991. What I enjoyed most about this book is that each...
A research report submitted to the faculty in Fulfillment of the research Requirement. — Alabama: Maxwell Air Force Base, 1986. — 35 p. Introductory remarks encompass the historical precedents leading up to the creation of the Soviet Spetznaz forces from WV II experience using partisans. A description of todays current Spetznaz units follows to include: mission, organization,...
Northwestern University Press, 2010. — 456 p. Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901–1975) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journey that started with a private meeting between the author and Bystrolyotov in 1973 Moscow and continued...
Lexington Books, 1987. — 254 p. Here we have a concise history of the Russian state security services from 1917 until approximately 1988 when the book was published. Founded directly after the revolution by Dzerzhinskiy and Lenin, the Cheka, as it was then known, eventually morphed into the NKVD and ultimately the KGB. These respective services were the backbone of the Soviet...
Putnam, 1997. — 391 p. The author of Family of Spies draws on interviews with KGB spy Aldrich Ames and the agents who caught him to offer a thorough account of the man and the unprecedented damage he did to the CIA. For nine years Aldrich Ames fed highly classified information to the KGB. Russia paid him millions of dollars – and promised millions more. He betrayed the...
Routledge, 2011. — 299 p. This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian regimes have sponsored a ‘cult’ of state security,...
Fort Leavenworth: Army Combined Arms Center, 1989. — 23 p. Modern Soviet special operations forces (SPETSNAZ) have their origins in World War II. This study examines Soviet naval infantry and its role in raids and long-range reconnaissance against the Germans in Northern Norway and against the Japanese in Korea. It concludes with an examination of modern requirements for...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 240 p. While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense “Ames Mole Hunt.” Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly...
Anthology of the international conference. — Bratislava: 14. – 16. 11. 2007, Nation´S Memory Institute, 2008. — 406 p. What makes this discussion paradoxical is the fact that those of us sitting here and seeking the answers to the options for the archival research at the establishments in this country into the activities and co-operation conducted by and between the KGB and the...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 318 p. Among the more sensational espionage cases of the Cold War were those of Moscow’s three British spies — Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. In this riveting book, S. J. Hamrick draws on documentary evidence concealed for almost half a century in reconstructing the complex series of 1947–1951 events that led British intelligence to...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. — 400 p. A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. Previous histories have focused on the KGB, leaving military intelligence and the special service--which...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 265 p. Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that American...
Aurum Press, 2014. — 360 p. On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two years in jail. At the time few details of his crimes were made known. By his own confession he was a Soviet spy and rumours later circulated that his actions had endangered British agents, but the reasons for such a severe...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1960. — 63 p. Recent Soviet propaganda has denounced the United States for aerial reconnaissance of the Soviet Union in terms designed to convince the world that the USSR would not stoop to espionage. In discussing this subject and the reception which President Eisenhower might expect on his visit to Russia, Premier Khrushchev was quoted...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 704 p. This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Years later, living in...
Greenhill Books, 2005. — 192 p. Expose of the USSR's clandestine biological-weapons programme Uncovers the covert practices of the Soviet and Russian intelligence services in the West Written with extraordinary insight by a former KGB operative 'Before the publication of Dr Kouzminov's book nobody in the West had any real idea of Department 12's role in penetrating biological...
St. Martin’s Press, 2016. — 448 p. Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies"―Maclean, Philby, Blunt — brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 320 p. The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War. Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of...
Brookings Institution Press, 1991. — 481 p. In this major new book, Michael MccGwire describes the radical rethinking of Soviet national security that together with the decision to democratize Soviet politics prompted these developments. MccGwire was among the first to recognize the shift and foresee the implications. He masterfully laces the redefinition of Soviet security...
Routledge, 2002. — 480 p. In this volume Dr. Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work. The translated documents tell the story of the KGB's methods and targets and should interest the general public as well as the specialist.
Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009. — 171 p. It has long been assumed that the KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopastnosti — Committee of State Security) played a major role in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.1 We have known, for instance, that the head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, was a major initiator of the decision to intervene, and that the...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. — 285 p. When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history. Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet...
Praeger Publishers, 1996. — 456 p. Based on Glasnost revelations and recently released archival material, this study covers the operations of Soviet state security from Beriia's appointment in 1938 until Stalin's death. The book pays particular attention to the career of V. S. Abakumov, head of SMERSH counterintelligence during the war and minister in charge of the MGB (the...
Pocket Books, 1970. — 496 p. If reality could ever be more gripping than fiction at its best and wildest, this would be the story. Amazing to the point that, if the story of the Rotte Kapelle were not true, it would seem like the wildest of spy fictions. By telling the story of how Trepper, a man forged in the early years of international bolshevism, and the many heroes from...
Modern Library, 2002. — 256 p. In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every...
Published by Defence Academy of United Kingdom Conflict Studies Research, 2005. — 19 p. Russia's cutting edge of its anti-terrorist struggle are her special forces. Russia is potentially an important partner in the antiterrorist struggle, a fact not recognised by many countries. The inordinate proliferation of special forces units in Russia requires a guided tour through her...
Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy (and a later edition published as Dezinformatsia: The Strategy of Soviet Disinformation) is a non-fiction book about disinformation and information warfare used by the KGB during the Soviet Union period, as part of their active measures tactics. The book was co-authored by Richard H. Shultz, professor of international politics...
Cambridge — Massachusetts, A Subsidiary of Harper & Row, Publishers Inc., 1986. — 279 p. — ISBN: 0-88730-035-9 The first such organization was the Oprichnina, set up in 1565 by Ivan the Terrible, the first Grand Duke of Moscow to be crowned as Tsar. The Opricbniki were Horse Guards, completely attired in black, including a cowl. The insignia on their saddles — the twin...
Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, — 394 p. From police headquarters at Fontanka 16 to the secret offices in major Russian post offices where specialists opened and read correspondence, the Okhranka blanketed the huge Russian empire with a network of secret agents and informers. In many cases they were involved in a desperate effort to track...
Perseus Books Group, 2002. — 267 p. Called "a first-rate spy story" (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-American boy who would become the perfect traitor, jeopardizing America's national security for over twenty years by...
Random House, 1995. — 308 p. The inside story of the biggest molehunt in the history of American intelligence: the search for and discovery by three New York Times journalists of Soviet KGB's agent and spy Aldrich Ames, who was paid by the Soviets for years to spying in America.
Yale University Press, 2009. — 377 p. TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious Cambridge Five” spy ringKim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to an exceptionally...
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