Gaiduk, Ilya V. Gaiduk, Ilya V.
1. The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996.
Jones, I&NS 20.3 (Sep. 2005), notes that this work explores "the extensive support offered by Moscow" to the DRV after 1964, "and the subsequent competition with the Chinese for influence with Hanoi."
2. Confronting Vietnam: Soviet Policy toward the Indochina Conflict, 1954-1963. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
Jones, I&NS 20.3 (Sep. 2005), sees the author taking the reader "through a period when the dominant trend in Russian policy was one of disinterest toward a region where the primary role had to be played by the Chinese, except when disputes over Indochina threatened to escalate into a wider conflict with the United States.... Gaiduk has done a fine job in excavating archival sources."
Garmon, William
T. "The KGB in the United Nations." Military Intelligence
13, no. 3 (1987): 12-13.
Garthoff, Raymond
L. "The KGB Reports to Gorbachev." Intelligence and National
Security 11, no. 2 (Apr. 1996): 224-244.
Four of the final six annual KGB reports (1985, 1986, 1988, and 1989) sent to Gorbachev are available in the Soviet archives. "They provide a wealth of statistical data, although with occasional exception not specific operational information.... They also provide a rare window into the mindset of the KGB as an institution."
Goncharov, Sergei
N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and
the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
According to Rich, WIR 15.1, the authors "reveal for the first time the creation of the Sino-Soviet alliance that led to involvement in the Korean invasion." In addition, they show that "a lack of accurate intelligence about the real prospects for North Korean success in the proposed invasion of South Korea indirectly injured the Soviet-Chinese relationship."
Gooch, John,
and Amos Perlmutter, eds. Military Deception and Strategic Surprise.
London: Cass, 1982.
The articles included in this anthology originally appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies. Pforzheimer notes that there are three case studies here: German covert rearmament, 1919-1939; Soviet deception on nuclear missile development, 1955-1981; and the Egyptian/Israeli confrontation leading to the 1973 war.
Gordievsky, Oleg. "The KGB After the Coup." Intelligence and National Security 8, no. 3 (Jul. 1993): 68-71.
"The KGB was always significant for Gorbachev; in fact the KGB was his darling. The coup revealed that Gorbachev's best friend was a traitor."
Gordievsky, Oleg.
"The KGB Archives." Intelligence and National Security
6, no. 1 (Jan. 1991): 7-14.
Some odds and ends about the KGB's "extremely methodical" handling of documents and files.
Goren, Roberta.
The Soviet Union and Terrorism. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Grau, Lester W., and Michael A. Gress, eds. The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Cohen, FA 81.3, finds that the tone of "this edited and translated collection of Russian general staff studies ... is clinical, professional, and technical." However, "the book frequently glosses over the brutality of the Soviet occupation and the disintegrating morale of the soldiers stationed there. The editors' view of the importance of military technology borders on the dismissive and misses a basic point: the Soviets had both inadequate technology and deeply demoralized troops, two factors that contributed to their campaign's failure."
Handelman, Stephen.
"Serving God and the KGB: Collaborators in the Church." World
Press Review, Nov 1992.
Harris,
Francis. "KGB Attack Provoked Velvet Revolution." Electronic
Telegraph, 16 Nov. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"Senior KGB officers were covertly involved in the unprovoked police assault on students in Prague 10 years ago [17 November 1989] that sparked Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and led to the fall of communism.... [D]ocumentary evidence of the KGB's role has survived. It shows that two senior officers [Gen. Viktor Grushko and Gen. Genady Teslenko] were in Prague at the time of the revolution."
Henderson, Robert
D'A. "'Project Rodriguista': Opposing Pinochet's Regime in Chile."
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 13,
no. 4 (Winter 2000): 438-489.
"[T]he Soviet leadership supported the launch of a clandestine 'Project Rodriguista'" by the Chilean Communist Party (PCCh) "to enable it to pursue an underground armed struggle against the Pinochet regime during the early 1980s."
Henze, Paul B.
The Plot to Kill the Pope. New York: Scribner's, 1984.
Rocca and Dziak find that the author "[a]dduces a strong case ... for Bulgarian/Soviet involvement in the May 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II." See Herman and Brodhead (below) for an opposing view.
Herman,
Edward S., and Frank Brodhead The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection. New York: Sheridan Square, 1986.
The authors offer a counterview to that of Henze (above) and Sterling (below) with regard to Soviet and Bulgarian involvement in the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul.
Hilden, Leonard. "Conditioned Reflex, Drugs and Hypnosis in Communist Interrogations." Studies in Intelligence 2, no. 2 (Spring 1958): 59-63.
"[A]ll of the evidence points to the fact that [Communist control] doctrine was developed and organized by ... police officials," and that "scientists have not participated." (italics in original) In addition, there is "no [reported] instance of operational use [of exotic psychological devices], except for normal medical purposes."
Hilger, Andreas. "Counter-Intelligence Soviet Style: The Activities of Soviet Security Services in East Germany, 1945-1955." Journal of Intelligence History 3, no. 1 (Summer 2003). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/previous.html]
From abstract: "The article outlines underlying ideological traditions and conceptions of the services' activities and describes the complex 'intelligence-reality' in the Soviet zone of occupation with its specific tensions between security interests, Soviet arbitrary, life in the post-war society, and possible resistance."
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