Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

by Douglas Boyd

Overview

After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Stalin installed secret police services in the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania’s Securitate, Bulgaria’s KDS, Albania’s Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings they were put down by brutality, bloodshed and Soviet tanks.Not so obvious was that these state terror organisations were also designed for military and commercial espionage in the West, to conceal the real case officers in Moscow. Specially trained operatives undertook ‘wet jobs’, including the assassinations. Perhaps the most menacing were the sleepers who who married and raised families in the west while waiting to strike against their host countries; many are still among us.In Moscow Rules Douglas Boyd explores the relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood – a family from hell.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750989367
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	11/19/2018
Series:	Espionage
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Douglas Boyd was trained as a Russian-language snooper on Warsaw Pact air forces, based at a secret RAF SIGINT base in Berlin, and spent time as a Cold War POW in East Berlin. He has scripted and directed historical reconstructions as a BBC TV producer. He is the author of more than 10 books, including The Kremlin Conspiracy, The Solitary Spy and Red October.