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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Christopher Andrew
Publisher: Basic Books

The result was their joint first book entitled The Sword and the Shield (1999) based on the Soviet secret operations in Europe and America. To give just one example, many readers of this site are familiar with the classic work on the KGB archives, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Vasili Mitrokhin a KGB employee who was in 1972 made responsible for moving the KGB's foreign intelligence archives to a new headquarters outside Moscow spent more than a decade clandestinely making notes and transcripts of these highly classified material. It is the second volume of a set detailing secrets of the KGB, secrets smuggled out from their files by Mitrokhin, the chief archivist of the FCB, after he had become disillusioned. The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Strictly guarded their secrets. The Secret History of the KGB: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Christopher Andrew is available to download The sword and the shield: the Mitrokhin archive and the secret. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew, (Author), Vasili Mitrokhin (Author), Basic Books (September 5, 2000), 700 pages. The first volume is entitled The Sword and the Shield, while the second volume (to which Renaud was referring) is entitled The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. Andrew and Mitrokhin - Bibliography Home Page The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West. A search on http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125.