Olga Bertelsen is an Associate Professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Tiffin
University’s Department of Criminal Justice & National Security. Educated at the
Medical State University (Ukraine), Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (the United
States), Penn State University (the United States), and the University of Nottingham
(the United Kingdom), she has published widely on Soviet/Russian operations of
ideological subversion, political violence in the USSR, and nuclear security. She is the
author of In the Labyrinth of the KGB (Lexington Books, 2022) and the editor of three
anthologies of archival KGB documents (2011; 2016), and two collections of scholarly
essays entitled Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine (2017) and Russian
Active Measures (2021).