Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985 - Softcover

Andrew, Christopher; Gordievsky, Oleg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804722285 ISBN 13: 9780804722285

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Review

'It is reassuring to find out how much of the old spy fiction was rooted in fact. Thanks to John le Carre, 'Moscow Rules' - complete with dead letter boxes and chalk marks on benches--are part of our vocabulary. It is, therefore, eminently satisfying to have Gordievsky, Moscow Centre's most famous defector, detail how the KGB actually used them.' The Sunday Times

Synopsis

During the decade that culminated in the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, an avalanche of top secret documents poured out from KGB headquarters in Moscow to its residencies throughout the world. Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB colonel and Resident-designate in London in 1985 when he defected; it was later revealed that he had been working as a double agent for British intelligence since 1974, regularly risking his life by passing copies of KGB documents to the British. This volume is a revealing selection of this highly classified material, with an informative commentary by Christopher Andrew, based on joint analysis of the documents with Gordievsky.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804722285
• ISBN 13: 9780804722285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260