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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | xi | |
| The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991 | xv | |
| The Transliteration of Russian Names | xvii | |
| Foreword | xix | |
| 1 | The Mitrokhin Archive | 1 |
| 2 | From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU | 23 |
| 3 | The Great Illegals | 42 |
| 4 | The Magnificent Five | 56 |
| 5 | Terror | 68 |
| 6 | War | 89 |
| 7 | The Grand Alliance | 104 |
| 8 | Victory | 122 |
| 9 | From War to Cold War | 137 |
| 10 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 1 | North American Illegals in the 1950's | 162 |
| 11 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 2 | Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War | 176 |
| 12 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 3 | Illegals after "Abel" | 190 |
| 13 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 4 | Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War | 203 |
| 14 | Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary | 224 |
| 15 | Progress Operations | |
| Part 1 | Crushing the Prague Spring | 247 |
| 16 | Progress Operations | |
| Part 2 | Spying on the Soviet Bloc | 262 |
| 17 | The KGB and Western Communist Parties | 276 |
| 18 | Eurocommunism | 294 |
| 19 | Ideological Subversion | |
| Part 1 | The War Against the Dissidents | 307 |
| 20 | Ideological Subversion | |
| Part 2 | The Victory of the Dissidents | 322 |
| 21 | Sigint in the Cold War | 337 |
| 22 | Special Tasks | |
| Part 1 | From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev | 356 |
| 23 | Special Tasks | |
| Part 2 | The Andropov Era and Beyond | 374 |
| 24 | Cold War Operations Against Britain | |
| Part 1 | After the "Magnificent Five" | 397 |
| 25 | Cold War Operations Against Britain | |
| Part 2 | After Operation FOOT | 417 |
| 26 | The Federal Republic of Germany | 437 |
| 27 | France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures | 460 |
| 28 | The Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches | 486 |
| 29 | The Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity | 508 |
| 30 | The Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc | 517 |
| 31 | Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency | 544 |
| Appendices | ||
| A | KGB Chairmen, 1917-26 | 566 |
| B | Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99 | 567 |
| C | The Organization of the KGB | 568 |
| D | The Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate | 569 |
| E | The Organization of a KGB Residency | 570 |
| Notes | 571 | |
| Bibliography | 669 | |
| Index | 683 |
Anonymous
Posted April 26, 2000
I really looked forward to getting my hands on this book, and am glad I did as it was educational. However, the book was billed as much more than it turned out to be. Not everything was that surprising or new, and the structure of the book left much to be desired. I guess I expected to read something very new and shocking, but in many parts I was just bored. It gets three stars because the original material that was there, not the presentation. The rest seemed a summary
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Posted December 8, 1999
The book is very intelligent and gives you knowledge of the KGB you wouldn't find anywhere else
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Posted February 19, 2000
Learning about some little tricks about an anacronic secret service in the Cold War 20 or 30 years ago doesn't help much to understand the contemporary world and the future. Forget about KGB Russia and the World should look forward ... not into the ugly
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Overview
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