The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006--poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium--caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit 43-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victi…
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006--poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium--caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit 43-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victi…
The story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted their relentless seizure of private companies, took over the e…
In this riveting and immensely readable investigation, Yevgenia Albats, one of Russia's leading journalists, explodes the myth that the KGB died - or even faded away - when the Soviet empire broke apart. Albats makes the shocking claim that the same group which proudly traces it…
A history of the CIA's spy wars with the KGB ranges from 1985, through the Afghan war, to the breakup of the Soviet Union, detailing the activities of intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict.
En gennemgang af KGBs historie og organisation, samt en sammenligning med GRU, hvis beføjelser var langt snævrere.
Efter 2. Verdenskrig begyndte forfatteren, Robert Lamphere, at dechiffrere opsnappede hemmelige sovjetiske signaler, hvilket førte ham på sporet af et KGB agent-net i USA og til afsløring af sovjetspioner som Judith Coplon, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold og Ethel og Julius Rosenberg.
A wide ranging investigation into the workings of the KGB, covering the manipulation of Egyptian President Nasser; the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro; the campaign to intimidate journalists and silence dissent within the Soviet Union: the assistance given to IRA Provisiona…
"The KGB Plays Chess is a unique book. For the first time it opens to us some of the most secret pages of the history of chess. The battles about which you will read in this book are not between chess masters sitting at the chess board, but between the powerful Soviet secret pol…
SELVBIOGRAFI. Pavel Sudoplatov ble arrestert rett etter Berias død i 1953. Til tross for tortur og plassering i enecelle, "tilsto" han aldri og insisterte på at anklagene mot ham enten var falske eller forvrengninger av de aktivitetene som han tidligere hadde blitt både forfremm…
