The Mitrokhin Archive

The Mitrokhin archive; from Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU; the great illegals; the magnificent five; terror; war; the grand alliance; victory; from war to Cold War; the main adversary - part 1, North American illegals in the 1950s; the main adversary - part 2, walk-ins and legal residencies in the early Cold War; the main adversary - part 3, illegals after "Abel"; the main adversary -part 4, walk-ins and legal residencies in the later Cold War; political warfare - active measures and the main adversary; progress operations - part 1, crushing the Prague spring; progress operations - part 2, spying on the Soviet Bloc; the KGB and Western communist parties; Eurocommunism; ideological subversion -part 1, the war against the dissidents; SIGINT in the Cold War; special tasks - part 1, from Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev; special tasks - part 2, the Andropov era and beyond; Cold War operations against Britain - part 1, after the magnificent five; Cold War operations against Britain - part 2, after operation FOOT; the Federal Republic of Germany; France and Italy during the Cold War - agent penetration and active measures; the penetration and persecution of the Soviet churches; the Polish Pope and the rise of Solidarity; the Polish crisis and the crumbling of the Sovier Bloc; conclusion - from the one-party state to the Putin Presidency - the role of Russian intelligence; appendices.