Mitrokhin and the KGB--volume two.(The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World)(Book review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Hylarides, Peter | Copyright information

The Mitrokhin Archive II. The KGB and the World. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]30.00. ISBN 0-713-99359-6.

Only mentioning the acronym KGB, the Committee for State Security of the former Soviet Union, still rings fear among many people. The extent of the operations of the KGB during its existence, from 1954 to the end of the USSR in December 1991, are now more or less known, or at the very least, suspected. Many books have been writ...

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