Mitrochin Archives
The Mitrochin Archive is a collection of handwritten notes that KGB Colonel Vasily Nikititsch Mitrochin made during his 30 years with the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service .
When Mitrochin defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 , he brought this archive with him and subsequently published two books with the British military historian Christopher Andrew . The material documents disinformation campaigns ( J. Edgar Hoover homosexual, HIV a product of the US Army, etc.), conspiracies for assassinations, installation of communist regimes, infiltration of churches, support for international terrorists, preparation of acts of sabotage .
The publication of Soviet intelligence practices led to parliamentary investigations, for example in the United Kingdom, India and Italy (Berlusconi's Mitrochin Commission 2002).
The FBI described the Mitrochin archive as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." The historian Joseph Persico described the revelations as "far more sensational even than the story dismissed as impossible by the SVR ."
Revealed KGB operations
- Wiretapping of Henry Kissinger when he was US Secretary of State .
- Attempt to incite racial hatred in the United States by sending fake hate letters to militant groups.
- Blackmail of Tom Driberg (code name Lepage), British MP and member of the Labor Party board . Driberg had spied on the Communist Party for MI5 in the 1930s .
- Bugging of MI6 -Stützpunkten in the Middle East .
- Records from defense companies such as Boeing , Fairchild , General Dynamics , IBM and Lockheed Corporation , which provided the Soviet Union with detailed information on the Trident , Peacekeeper and Tomahawk missile systems .
- Support the Sandinista .
KGB spies mentioned in the records
- Melita Norwood , (code name Hola), a British secretary with access to nuclear secrets
- John Symonds (code name Scot), a former detective sergeant at New Scotland Yard
- Raymond Fletcher (code name Peter), a British journalist and later MP
- Iosif Grigulevich , an NKVD -killer which, under the false identity Teodoro B. Castro 1952-1954 as an ambassador for Italy and Yugoslavia in Costa Rica served
- Robert Lipka , former employee of the US National Security Agency
- Salaad Gabeyre Kediye , former member of the Somali Revolutionary Council
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen W. Stromberg: Documenting the KGB . In: Oxonian Review of Books . Winter 2005
- ↑ Book review for The Sword and the Shield . New York Times
- ^ Andrew: The KGB in Europe , pp. 451-453.
- ^ Andrew, Mitrokhin: The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West . London 1999, pp. 310-311.
- ^ Andrew: Mitrokhin Archive , pp. 522-526.
- ^ Andrew: The KGB in Europe , p. 443.
- ^ Andrew: The KGB in Europe , p. 454.
- ↑ KGB in Europe , pp. 503-505
- ^ UK House of Commons, Hansard Debates , Oct. 21, 1999, Columns 587-594
- ^ Andrew, Mitrokhin: The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West . London 1999, pp. 559-563.
- ^ Andrew: Mitrokhin Archives , pp. 526-527.
- ^ New York Times , September 25, 1997.