More Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113897644X ISBN 13: 9781138976443

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

During the decade that preceded Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. Unknown to the KGB, however, many of these highly classified documents were being secretly copied by Oleg Gordievsky, at that time not only a high-ranking KGB officer based in London but also a long-serving undercover agent for the British. The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors with a commentary by Christopher Andrew to set them in context, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years.

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Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113897644X
• ISBN 13: 9781138976443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Andrew Christopher M., Gordievsky Oleg