Inside the KGB

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The Dark Side of Detente
¦ How the Soviets fire their soldiers with hatred for America
¦ The "nationalities question": Russia's Achilles heel?
¦ How the KGB recruits tourists behind the Iron Curtain
¦ KGB boss orders: "If you can't find enemies, create them"
¦ Why the lowliest KGB man can strike terror into high-ranking army officers
¦ Sex scandals: how the New Morality has forced the KGB to switch tactics
¦ Do the Soviets really fear the Chinese?
¦ Alcohol and drugs: deadly weapons in the KGB's war against dissidents
¦ Suicides and desertions: the plague sweeping the Red Army
¦ Mental wards for the sane
¦ How Moscow flattered de Gaulle—and ushered France out of NATO
¦ Soviet Jews: the KGB hounds them day and night
¦ Why Brezhnev has boosted KGB pay and power
¦ Black marketeering in the KGB
¦ The Russian soldier: used as a guinea pig for testing radioactive fallout
¦ Laugh out of turn—sit in jail for a week
¦ Communism's landed gentry: the privileged few live... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Dark Side of Detente
¦ How the Soviets fire their soldiers with hatred for America
¦ The "nationalities question": Russia's Achilles heel?
¦ How the KGB recruits tourists behind the Iron Curtain
¦ KGB boss orders: "If you can't find enemies, create them"
¦ Why the lowliest KGB man can strike terror into high-ranking army officers
¦ Sex scandals: how the New Morality has forced the KGB to switch tactics
¦ Do the Soviets really fear the Chinese?
¦ Alcohol and drugs: deadly weapons in the KGB's war against dissidents
¦ Suicides and desertions: the plague sweeping the Red Army
¦ Mental wards for the sane
¦ How Moscow flattered de Gaulle—and ushered France out of NATO
¦ Soviet Jews: the KGB hounds them day and night
¦ Why Brezhnev has boosted KGB pay and power
¦ Black marketeering in the KGB
¦ The Russian soldier: used as a guinea pig for testing radioactive fallout
¦ Laugh out of turn—sit in jail for a week
¦ Communism's landed gentry: the privileged few live better than the czar
¦ Why the KGB has worn out its welcome in East Germany
¦ Are there anti-Communists in the KGB?
¦ Secret memo from the Kremlin: how to spot a spy
INSIDE THE KGB
Aleksei Myagkov
Aleksei Myagkov is running for his life. Ever since he defected to the West in 1974, agents of the Soviet secret police (KGB) have been harassing him. Already a Communist kangaroo court has sentenced him to death in absentia. If they get their hands on him, he's finished.
Why are the Reds so upset about a single defector? Captain Myagkov happens to be the highest-ranking counterspy the KGB has ever lost. He knows some of the darkest Soviet secrets. And now he is telling them to the world in this explosive new book.
Myagkov first recounts his escape to freedom, a breath-stopping tale that could become the movie of the year. A stroke of luck enabled him to slip away from a detachment of Russian soldiers visiting West Berlin. Ducking into an art gallery, he took off his military overcoat and cap and stuffed them behind a picture. Then, in the nick of time, the police picked him up and brought him to the British, who flew him to the West with an escort of fighter planes. In his briefcase: a stack of top-secret Soviet documents, several of them reproduced here for the first time.
Unlike most writers on Russian espionage, Aleksei Myagkov speaks from firsthand experience. He explains how the KGB recruits and trains . . . what makes a young man want to join the KGB—and what makes him later want to quit. . . KGB techniques for crushing dissent . . . why, in spite of the Helsinki Declaration, Brezhnev relies on KGB
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terror even more than Khrushchev did . how KGB men keep tabs on each other . . . why "detente" has not kept Moscow from stepping up its spy offensive against the West.
Bulging with documentary evidence, this book goes behind the rhetoric of detente to reveal what the Kremlin bosses are really thinking. Every American concerned for our safety must give Myagkov a hearing. Because it's our future they're deciding right now, Inside the KGB. Vissza