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Article: Smuggled files make rich catch on KGB's fishing for help abroad.(Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1999
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Gertrude Himmelfarb once wrote, "The desire to transcend the human condition is an invitation to tyranny." And also, it seems, an invitation to treason. Having just read "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB," (arguably the most important book ever written about that subject), it is hard to conclude otherwise.
This is a massive volume. It tells the story of how the KGB - in addition to controlling the Soviet people for more than seven decades and crushing potential domestic opposition by mass terror - developed overseas operations that took highly intelligent men and women who were infatuated with "scientific ...