Comrade Kryuchkov's instructions
Subtitle: top secret files on KGB foreign operations, 1975-1985
By: edited by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky.
Contributors: Andrew, Christopher M.; Gordievsky, Oleg.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Kri͡u︡chkov, Vladimir, 1924-; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History -- Sources.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1975-1985 -- Sources.
Other titles: Instructions from the centre.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET. "The book was first published in England in 1992 under the title Instructions from the Centre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240).
Updated ed. of: Instructions from the centre. 1991.