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Jul 7, 2014 · The documents have been held in secret since Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB official-turned-dissident, snuck them out of the collapsed Soviet Union in 1992. Mitrokhin first tried bringing them to ...
Jul 7, 2014, 11:04 AM PDT. Over 20 years after being smuggled out of Russia, a trove of KGB documents are being opened up to the public for the first time. The leaked documents include thousands ...
Jul 7, 2014 · From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive – with unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence gathering operations. At the same time, having grown disillusioned with the brutal oppression of the Soviet regime, he was ...
Christopher Andrew states that in the Mitrokhin Archive there are several Latin American leaders or members of left wing parties accused of being KGB informants or agents. For example, leader of the Sandinistas who seized power in Nicaragua in 1979, Carlos Fonseca Amador, was described as "a trusted agent" in KGB files.
Jul 8, 2014 · Thousands of KGB files from the ‘Mitrokhin Archive’ are now available to the public. In 1992, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of secret documents from the KGB, the ...
Jul 6, 2014 · The papers, smuggled out of Russia by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin after the breakup of the Soviet Union, describe sabotage plots, booby-trapped weapons caches and armies of agents under cover ...
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Jul 7, 2014 · The files smuggled out of Russia in 1992 by senior KGB official Vasili Mitrokhin describe sabotage plots, booby-trapped weapons caches and armies of agents under cover in the West — the real-life inspiration for the fictional Soviet moles in “The Americans” TV series. In reality, top-quality spies could be hard to get.