The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
Christopher Andrew
Language: English
Pages: 736
ISBN: 0465003125
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take a stand against the Home Office decision.52 On November 30 the first in a series of well-publicized meetings to protest against the deportation order was held in London, with speakers including Judith Hart, former Labor Minister of Overseas Development, the leading Labor left-winger Ian Mikardo, Alan Sapper of the film and TV technicians union and the distinguished historian E. P. Thompson. An active defense committee53 based at the National Council of Civil Liberties organized
had spent much of his early career in exile or in Tsarist prisons. Before the First World War, he had specialized in tracking down police spies among Bolshevik émigrés. While serving with the Cheka in 1918, he was reputed to have been caught by “bandits” and hung from a tree, but to have been cut down just in time by Red forces who successfully revived him. Unlike any of his successors, Trilisser sometimes traveled abroad to meet INO agents.42 At least until Lenin was incapacitated by his third
Manhattan (codenamed CROOK), who had volunteered his services to the NKVD in 1937 but demanded a high price for his intelligence. Over the next two years, the NKVD oscillated between pride at having an agent in Congress and suspicion that Dickstein was recycling publicly available information. In June 1939 Ovakimyan denounced him in a message to the Center as “a complete racketeer and blackmailer.” Weinstein and Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood, ch. 7. 18. On Duggan’s codenames, see above, n. 7. 19.
Joseph T. McCarthyism McDonnell Douglas McGovern, George McLennan, Gordon McNeil, Hector Mechulayev, Vladimir Ivanovich Medvedev, Roy Melnik, Constantin Menzhinsky, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzies, Stewart Mercador, Ramón Mercador del Rio, Caridid MERCURY (chemist) Messerschmitt Messmer, Pierre METIL METSENAT Mexico MGB MI1c (British Secret Intelligence Service) MICK Mielke, Erich Mihailovich MIKE (MIT physicist) MIKHAILOV (Geli Vasilyev) Mikhaylovna, Svetlana Mikoyan,
1944, however, Hiss’s role as a Soviet agent took on a new significance when he became actively engaged in preparations for the final meeting of the wartime Big Three at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945. Yalta was to prove an even bigger success for Soviet intelligence than Tehran. This time both the British and the American delegations, housed respectively in the ornate Vorontsov and Livadia Palaces, were successfully bugged. The mostly female personnel used to record and transcribe their