ANDREW – GORDIEVSKIJ : KGB (fülszöveg)
KGB: The Inside Story is the most enthralling, the most riveting, and the most thorough history ever written about Soviet intelligence and espionage activíties—and it is all true. Coauthor Oleg Gordievsky, an ex-colonel in the KGB and at the time of his defection and dramatic escape to the West head of the KGB's London Residency, combines his inside knowledge with the historical perspective of Christopher Andrew, the Cambridge historian considered by The Times to be "Britain's leading unofficial historian of intelligence." Together they provide a vivid analysis of the Soviet's espionage operations, successes, and failures from Lenin to Gorbachev. Packed with fascinating stories and dozens of larger-than-life real characters, and exploding with remarkable, often stunning, revelations, KGB: The Inside Story is an important nonfiction book that reads like a bestselling espionage novel. Among its many startling, often harrowing truths are:
· The first-ever revelation of the long-sought answer to the identity of the fifth British traitor, in addition to Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, and why he was considered by the KGB of such unique value.
· The most extensive details ever published (collected from KGB files) of the liquidation by the KGB of targets as diverse as Leon Trotsky and the famous Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
· The identities, aliases, and missions of important Soviet secret agents, including prominent Americans during World War II.
· Details of the murder of a Bulgarian émigré on a London Street by an assassin who stabbed him with the tip of an umbrella fin which a deadly pofison was hidden.
· The first behind-the-scenes revelation of how Reagan's outspoken antipathy to Communism exacerbated Soviet paranoia to the extent that the Soviet leadership put all KGB agents on watch against a preemptive American missile strike and the start of World War III (and how some in the KGB feared that some in the Kremlin might try to act first).
· How, during the 1980s, the KGB produced ten to fifteen forgeries per year of U.S. documents that were used to convince Third World countries of hostile operations by the CIA, including the 1985 attempt to blame AIDS on American biological warfare.
· Accounts of the systematic and successful seduction of U.S. diplomats, CIA personnel, and Marine guards in America's Moscow embassy by Soviet women agents from the embassy's earliest days.
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