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 The World Was Going Our WayThe KGB and the Battle for the Third Worldby Christopher Andrew Sep 20, 2005
DescriptionIn 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. Reviews“[A] skillfull and comprehenive account of KGB ‘active measures,’ ‘dirty tricks,’ and signal human intelligence gathering everywhere from Latin America and Africa to Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, and ‘unofficial Islam’ inside the Soviet Union itself.” “Christopher Andrew has, in The World Was Going Our Way, presented a well-written, highly engrossing narrative of the KGB program to win the Cold War through domination of the Third World. . . [Intelligence professionals] acknowledge the indisputable value of this book in providing critical detail toward history's understanding of the motivations and tactics of the KGB in the Cold War chapter of what Kipling called 'The Great Game.’” “[The World Was Going Our Way is] a damning indictment of the way the KGB conducted its business, and the willingness of the Kremlin to be deluded.” “[The World Was Going Our Way is a] vitally important book. . . must-reading for anyone interested in how the Cold War might have had a different outcome. . . This is a book to which you find yourself referring over and over. . . the most valuable intelligence book of the year.” "“Andrew's engaging, occasionally gossipy narrative provides new evidence of Soviet sponsorship of Latin American insurgencies and Palestinian terrorists, along with details of KGB spycraft and dirty tricks. The world-wide communist conspiracy he depicts was far from a juggernaut, but he sheds new light on the hidden history of the Cold War.” Selling TerritoryWorld Excluding Canada, UK & Commonwealth, European Union |
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