The international bestseller critically acclaimed as "undoubtedly the most important book ever written on Soviet espionage."--San Francisco Chronicle.

KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev

History

Gordievsky, Oleg

ANDREW, CHRISTOPHER

Russia

Perennial

Shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Next Stop Execution

Pan/Macmillan

This history of the world's largest and most powerful intelligence service, the KGB, from its origin after the Russian revolution to the present day, analyzes its operations against subjects as diverse as the EEC, Margaret Thatcher, Solidarity and Libya. This study also provides an insight into Gorbachev's relations with the KGB and examines the disintegration of the Soviet bloc. Christopher Andrew has also written "Secret Service". Gordievsky was a KGB colonel who worked for British intelligence as a penetration agent in the KGB from 1974. He escaped to the West in 1985.

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Hodder&Stoughton

This offers an insight into KGB operations at the dawn of the Gorbachev era, and into the thinking of its top leadership from 1975-1985.

Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

From the centre in Moscow the KGB poured forth an avalanche of top-secret documents to its residencies the world over. During the decade which culminated in the rise to power of Mikhael Gorbachev, Oleg Gordievsky, at that time a colonel in the KGB, regularly risked his life by making copies of these documents. Now a selection has been translated and analyzed by Gordievsky and Christopher Andrew, offering a classified insight not merely into KGB foreign operations between 1975 and '85, but also into the thinking of its top leadership at the beginning of the 1990s.

During the decade that culminated in the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, an avalanche of top secret documents poured out from KGB headquarters in Moscow to its residencies throughout the world. Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB colonel and Resident-designate in London in 1985 when he defected; it was later revealed that he had been working as a double agent for British intelligence since 1974, regularly risking his life by passing copies of KGB documents to the British. This volume is a revealing selection of this highly classified material, with an informative commentary by Christopher Andrew, based on joint analysis of the documents with Gordievsky. The book gives us a fascinating inside look at the workings and the thinking of the KGB, whose chairman was General V. A. Kryuchkov, later one of the leaders of the abortive coup against Gorbachev in August 1991. The documents range from somewhat comic instructions to sabotage the U.S. bicentennial to detailed methods for recruiting agents to orders concerning the KGB's largest peacetime intelligence operations, an attempt to secure information on President Reagan's (non-existent) preparations for a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. The book was first published in England in 1992 under the title Instructions from the Centre.

Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985

Stanford University Press

More Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985

Andrew, Christopher M.

Routledge

Whole Story Audio Books

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. He provided Western security organizations with such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the larger Soviet government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism. In this thrilling memoir, Gordievsky lays out his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia, a story that has been described as 'one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.' (Ben Macintyre - The Times) Peopled with bizarre, dangerous and corrupt characters, Gordievsky introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West. Gordievsky's autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent. It also paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoid incompetence, alongside the ruthless determination, of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB.

Lume Books

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. 
For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. 
He provided Western security organizations with such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the larger Soviet government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism. 
In this thrilling memoir, Gordievsky lays out his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia, a story that has been described as 'one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying.' (Ben Macintyre - The Times) 
Peopled with bizarre, dangerous and corrupt characters, Gordievsky introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West. 
Gordievsky's autobiography gives a fascinating account of life as a secret agent. It also paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoid incompetence, alongside the ruthless determination, of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB.Praise for Oleg Gordievsky... 
'Gordievsky's extraordinary courage, mental toughness and self-possession are heroic.' - The Spectator 
Oleg Gordievsky was born in Moscow in 1938. He attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where he specialized in German. He was sent to East Berlin as a diplomatic trainee in August 1961. Two days after his arrival, the Wall went up. In 1962 he joined the KGB and was posted to Copenhagen and London. He worked as a secret agent for eleven years until his dramatic escape to the West in 1985. He is the author of KGB: The Inside Story.

Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

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KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev

Next Stop Execution

KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev

Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985

Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations 1975-1985

Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985

More Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985

Next Stop Execution

Next Stop Execution

Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky