The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States.Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century.Among the topics and revelations explored are:• The KGB's covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today.• KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton.• The KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader.• The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications.• The KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations.• KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president.• KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society.
Vasili Mitrokhin , Кристофер Эндрю
Политика18+Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD
IN MEMORY OF “MA”
AFSA — Armed Forces Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA]
AKEL — Cyprus Communist Party Amtorg American-Soviet Trading Corporation, New York
ASA — Army Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA]
AVH — Hungarian security and intelligence agency
AVO — predecessor of AVH
BfV — FRG security service
BND — FRG foreign intelligence agency
CDU — Christian Democratic Union [FRG]
Cheka — All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage: predecessor KGB (1917-22)
CIA — Central Intelligence Agency [USA]
COCOM — Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade
Comecon — [Soviet Bloc] Council for Mutual Economic Aid Comintern Communist International
CPC — Christian Peace Conference
CPC — Communist Party of Canada
CPCz — Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
CPGB — Communist Party of Great Britain
CPSU — Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPUSA — Communist Party of the United States of America
CSU — Christian Social Union [FRG: ally of CDU]
DCI — Director of Central Intelligence [USA]
DGS — Portuguese security service
DGSE — French foreign intelligence service
DIA — Defense Intelligence Agency [USA]
DLB — dead letter-box
DRG — Soviet sabotage and intelligence group
DS — Bulgarian security and intelligence service
DST — French security service
F Line — “Special Actions” department in KGB residencies
FAPSI — Russian (post-Soviet) SIGINT agency
FBI — Federal Bureau of Investigation [USA]
FCD — First Chief [Foreign Intelligence] Directorate, KGB
FCO — Foreign and Commonwealth Office [UK]
FRG — Federal Republic of Germany
GCHQ — Government Communications Head-Quarters [British SIGINT Agency]
GDR — German Democratic Republic
GPU — Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1922-3)
GRU — Soviet Military Intelligence
GUGB — Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1943-43)
Gulag — Labour Camps Directorate
HUMINT — intelligence from human sources (espionage)
HVA — GDR foreign intelligence service
ICBM — intercontinental ballistic missile
IMINT — imagery intelligence
INO — foreign intelligence department of Cheka/GPU/OGPU/ GUGB, 1920-1941; predecessor of INU
INU — foreign intelligence directorate of NKGB/GUGB/MGB, 1941-54; predecessor of FCD
IRA — Irish Republican Army
JIC — Joint Intelligence Committee [UK]
K-231 — club of former political prisoners jailed under Article 231 of the Czechoslovak criminal code
KAN — Club of Non-Party Activists [Czechoslovakia]
KGB — Soviet security and intelligence service (1954-1991)
KHAD — Afghan security service
KI — Soviet foreign intelligence agency, initially combining foreign intelligence directorates of MGB and GRU (1947-51)
KKE — Greek Communist Party
KKE-es — breakaway Eurocommunist Greek Communist Party
KOR — Workers Defence Committee [Poland]
KPÖ — Austrian Communist Party
KR Line — Counter-intelligence department in KGB residencies
LLB — live letter box
MGB — Soviet Ministry of State Security (1946-54)
MGIMO — Moscow State Institute for International Relations
MI5 — British security service
MI6 — alternative designation for SIS [UK]
MOR — Monarchist Association of Central Russia (“The Trust”)
N Line — Illegal support department in KGB residencies
NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NKGB — People’s Commisariat for State Security (Soviet security and intelligence service, 1941 and 1943-6)
NKVD — People’s Commisariat for Internal Affairs (incorporated state security, 1922-3, 1934-43)
NSA — National Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA]
NSC — National Security Council [USA]
NSZRiS — People’s [anti-Bolshevik] Union for Defence of Country and Freedom
NTS — National Labour Alliance (Soviet émigré social-democratic movement)
Okhrana — Tsarist security service, 1881-1917
OMS — Comintern International Liaison Department
OSS — Office of Strategic Services [USA]
OT — Operational Technical Support (FCD)
OUN — Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
OZNA — Yugoslav security and intelligence service
PCF — French Communist Party
PCI — Italian Communist Party
PCP — Portuguese Communist Party
PFLP — Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PIDE — Portuguese Liberation Organization
PLO — Palestine Liberation Organization
POUM — Workers Unification Party (Spanish Marxist Trotskyist Party in 1930s)
PR Line — political intelligence department in KGB residences
PSOE — Spanish Socialist Party
PUWP — Polish United Workers [Communist] Party
RCMP — Royal Canadian Mounted Police
ROVS — [White] Russian Combined Services Union
RYAN —
SALT — Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM — Soviet surface-to-air missile
SB — Polish Security and intelligence service
SCD — Second Chief [Internal Security and Counter-Intelligence] Directorate, KGB