THE SPY IN THE ARCHIVE: HOW ONE MAN TRIED TO KILL THE KGB

THE SPY IN THE ARCHIVE: HOW ONE MAN TRIED TO KILL THE KGBThe story of how one mana librarian for the KGBbecame a traitor to the intelligence agency, stealing the most prized Soviet era archives and smuggling them to the West. How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files. The work goes on for decades but remains

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This book is more than an exposé—it’s a toolkit for understanding and countering the RIS’ manipulative tactics

Intelligence work was effectively impossible

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