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The second volume of stunning revelations from the archives of the KGB-covering the Soviets' vast operations around the world, from the Middle East to Latin America, Africa and India
The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
Basic Books
September 2005
678 pages ISBN: 0465003117 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated
from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained
a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield
in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most
senior archivist. Unknown to his superiors, Mitrokhin had
spent over a decade making notes and transcripts of highly
classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he
smuggled out of the KGB archives. The FBI described the
archive as "the greatest single cache of intelligence every
received by the West." In The Sword and the Shield, Christopher Andrew revealed
the secrets of the KGB's operations in the United States
and Europe; now in The World Was Going Our Way, he has
written the first comprehensive account of the KGB and its
operations throughout the Third World. Our understanding of
the contemporary world remains incomplete without taking
into account the vast impact of the KGB in developing
nations: Andrew reveals the names of political leaders on
the KGB payroll as well as the KGB's successful penetration
of numerous foreign governments. He also points to the many
absurdities of KGB operations-such as agents attempting to
assess the spread of influence of rival Chinese communism
by visiting African capitals and counting the number of
posters of Mao Tse Tung. For decades the KGB believed that the world was going their
way-and Americans at the highest reaches of government
lived in fear that they were losing the Cold War in the
Third World. This extraordinary book will transform our
understanding of the history of the twentieth century.
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