The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

57. vol. 6, ch. 14, parts 1, 2, 3; k-8,607.

58. Agee, “What Uncle Sam Wants to Know about You,” p. 113. (Page references are to the 1978 reprint in Agee and Wolf, Dirty Work.)

59. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1; vol. 7, ch. 16, para. 46.

60. Agee, “What Uncle Sam Wants to Know about You,” p. 114.

61. Agee, On The Run, pp. 255, 280-1.

62. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

63. Agee, On The Run, p. 255. Codenames of some of the RUPOR group in vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2. Mitrokhin’s notes record that the group included “former CIA employees” apart from Agee, but do not identify Jim and Elsie Wilcott by name.

64. Agee, On The Run, pp. 276-82.

65. The document was also sent anonymously to the British journal Leveller, which published extracts from it in August 1979. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

66. Agee, On The Run, p. 304.

67. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

68. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

69. Agee, On The Run, p. 306.

70. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

71. Agee, On The Run, chs. 13-15.

72. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

73. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

74. “Miss Knight Pens Another Letter,” Washington Post (August 4, 1966).

75. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1. On Hoover’s contacts with Knight, cf. Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, p. 409.

76. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

77. DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI, ch. 4.

78. DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI, p. 62.

79. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

80. DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI, ch. 9. The expurgated text of Sullivan’s anonymous message to King, opened by his wife Coretta, is published in Theoharis, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, pp. 102-3.

81. See below, chapter 17.

82. King, Why We Can’t Wait; Colaiaco, Martin Luther King, Jr., ch. 5.

83. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2. The other civil rights leaders selected as targets for active measures were A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkens.

84. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

85. Colaiaco, Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 183. Moscow disapproved, however, of the Black Panthers (whom Carmichael joined in 1968), the Black Muslims and other black separatist groups who lacked what it believed was a proper sense of solidarity with the worldwide struggle against American imperialism.

86. DeLoach, Hoover’s FBI, p. 247.

87. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2.

88. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 2. The file noted by Mitrokhin does not record the outcome of operation PANDORA. On present evidence, it is impossible to be certain which, if any, of the attacks on black organizations blamed on the Jewish Defense League were actually the work of the KGB.

89. vol. 6, ch. 10; vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1. The Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the Moscow Olympics four years earlier.

90. US Department of State, Active Measures, p. 55.

91. Dobrynin, In Confidence, p. 176.

92. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 539. Dobrynin, In Confidence, pp. 235-6.

93. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 256; Isaacson, Kissinger, p. 612. On the KGB targeting of Jackson and Perle, see vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

94. Isaacson, Kissinger, pp. 612-15.

95. Dobrynin, In Confidence, p. 269.

96. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

97. On the Centre’s short-lived hopes of using Brzezinski’s Soviet contacts to exert influence on him, see above, chapter 8.

98. Andrew, For the President’s Eyes Only, p. 433.

99. Dobrynin, In Confidence, p. 375.

100. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

101. vol. 5, section 10.

102. vol. 5, section 10.

103. Andrew, For the President’s Eyes Only, p. 455. Vance resigned as Secretary of State after opposing the unsuccessful mission to rescue the Teheran hostages in 1980. 104. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

105. Reagan, An American Life, p. 33.

106. vol. 6, ch. 14, part 1.

107. Dobrynin, In Confidence, pp. 459, 470, 523. Cf. above, ch. 8. On RYAN, see Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 583-605, and Andrew and Gordievsky (eds.), Instructions from the Centre, ch. 4.

108. Order of the KGB Chairman, no. 0066 (April 12, 1982). vol. 4, indapp. 3, item 47.

109. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 590-1.

110. Reagan, An American Life, pp. 329-30.

111. vol. 6, ch. 8, part 3. As well as deceiving Sekou Touré, Seliskov also made an unsuccessful attempt to recruit the CIA station chief during his visit to Conakry.

112. vol. 6, ch. 8, part 3.

113. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, p. 630. Active measures in the Third World will be covered in more detail in the next volume.

114. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 630-1.

115. Interview with Shebarshin after his retirement, Daily Telegraph (December 1, 1992).

116. Order of the Chairman of the KGB, no. 107/OV. (September 5, 1990).