Title: Comrade Kryuchkov's instructions
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.
Subjects: Sources, Soviet Union, Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti, Foreign relations, History, Espionage & secret services, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1980 to c 1990, History - General History, Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Soviet Union., Krëiìuchkov, Vladimir,, History: World, Europe, Russia, History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union), 1975-1985, 1924-, Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezop, Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti, Soviet union, foreign relations, 1945-1991, Soviet union, komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti
Places: Soviet Union
People: Vladimir Kri︠u︡chkov (1924-)
Time periods: 1975-1985