Description
This stunning exposรฉ is a fresh way of looking at the current operations and global strategies of the new KGB.
The writing of the book has been something of a spy story in itself. The authors are veteran intelligence specialists. Together they have more than seventy years of firsthand experience in attempting to counter, thwart, identify, and understand their contemporaries in the KGB. It is the first time that professional American intelligence agents have publicly analyzed sixty-eight years of Soviet intelligence background, and linked this background to current operations.
The authors' devastating analysis is that the KGB has forsaken its traditional role as the "shield and sword of the party" to actively become master of the Soviet Communist party and the dominant force in the government of the USSR. Their argument pains- takingly traces the changes in the Soviet hierarchy that were started by the late KGB chief Yuri Andropov and which ended recently with the death of Konstantin Chernenko and the immediate naming of Mikhail Gorbachev to take charge of the Soviet Union in what was the quickest succession in Soviet history.
ISBN:0688041833
