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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Andrew, Christopher M. Sword and the shield. New York : Basic Books , c1999 (OCoLC)607413964 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher M Andrew; Vasili Mitrokhin |
| ISBN: | 0465003109 9780465003105 9780465003129 0465003125 |
| OCLC Number: | 42368608 |
| Description: | 700 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Mitrokhin archive -- 2. From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU -- 3. The great illegals -- 4. The magnificent five -- 5. Terror -- 6. War -- 7. The grand alliance -- 8. Victory -- 9. From war to Cold War -- 10. The main adversary : part 1. North American illegals in the 1950's -- 11. The main adversary : part 2. Walk-ins and legal residencies in the early Cold War -- 12. The main adversary : part 3. Illegals after "Abel" -- 13. The main adversary : part 4. Walk-ins and legal residencies in the later Cold War -- 14. Political warfare : active measures and the main adversary -- 15. PROGRESS operations : part 1. crushing the Prague Spring -- 16. PROGRESS operations : part 2 : spying on the Soviet Bloc -- 17. The KGB and Western Communist parties -- 18. Eurocommunism -- 19. Ideological subversion : part 1 : the war against the dissidents -- 20. Ideological subversion : part 2 : the victory of the dissidents -- 21. SIGINT in the Cold War -- 22. Special tasks : part 1 : from Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev -- 23. Special tasks : part 2 : the Andropov era and beyond -- 24. Cold War operations against Britain : part 1 : after the "Magnificent five" -- 25. Cold War operations against Britain : part 2 : after Operation FOOT -- 26. The Federal Republic of Germany -- 27. France and Italy during the Cold War : agent penetration and active measures -- 28. The penetration and persecution of the Soviet churches -- 29. The Polish Pope and the rise of solidarity -- 30. The Polish crisis and the crumbling of the Soviet Bloc -- 31. Conclusion : from the one-party state to the Yeltsin presidency. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. |
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Abstract:
Christopher Andrew's work is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: the discovery of highly classified documents which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source.
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