Israelyan, Victor L. On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003. Israelyan, Victor L. On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003.
Legvold, FA, Jan.-Feb. 2004, notes that the author "served in key second-level positions in the Soviet Foreign Ministry from 1968 to 1987.... This is intriguing material for the general reader and valuable material for future historians."
Johnson, N.L.
"Soviet Satellite Reconnaissance Activities and Trends." Air
Force, Mar. 1981, 90-94.
Johnston, Bruce. "KGB 'Planned to Murder the Pope.'" Electronic Telegraph,
4 Nov. 1999. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
According to newspaper reports, files in the hands of an Italian parliamentary commission "outline alleged KGB plots against the Pope, including one suggesting his assassination.... According to the reports, a Mgr John Bukovsky, apparently a reference to a Czech-born papal nuncio, took part in KGB spying operations against the Vatican."
Kevorkov, Vyacheslav.
Tayniy Kanal [Secret Channel]. Moscow: "Geya," 1997. Keworkow,
Wjatcheslaw. Der geheime Kanal: Moskau, der KGB und die Bonner Ostpolitik.
Berlin: Rowohlt, 1995.
Gordievsky, I&NS 14.1, notes that this work by a former KGB general focuses on "how the KGB ... set up and maintained throughout the 1970s a secret channel, or back channel, with the West German leaders Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt.... The author hides more than he reveals..., does not use documents, avoids concrete detail and sometimes even exact dates. However he sheds some light on murky and hitherto secret important aspects of European politics in the period between 1969 and 1983."
Klass, Philip
J. "USSR Accelerates Recon Satellite Pace." Aviation Week &
Space Technology, 6 Apr. 1970, 72-79.
Konovalov, A.A., and V.S. Sokolov. "Meeting with Agents." Studies in Intelligence 8, no. 2 (Spring 1964): 65-91.
"This article is adapted from a paper issued under Top Secret classification by the Military-Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Army, Department of Special Training." (p. 65/fn.1)
Lukes, Igor.
"Great Expectations and Lost Illusions: Soviet Use of Eastern European
Proxies in the Third World." International Journal of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence 3, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 1-13.
Lyubimov,
Victor. "The Role of Military Intelligence in Settling the [1961] Berlin
Crisis." Military Parade, 31 (Jan.-Feb. 1999). [http://www.milparade.com/1999/31/070.htm -- not found 1/8/06]
The author says that the Soviet leadership was kept well informed about Allied plans during the 1961 Berlin Crisis by two GRU sources identified only by their codenames of Murat and Giselle.
Masters, Ian.
The Man Who Saved the World. US: Knightsbridge, 1991.
Surveillant 1.2 reports that this book "recounts Gordievsky's supposed defusing of the [November 1983] NATO exercises which the Russians thought would be the real thing, forcing the Soviets to push the nuclear button."
Parrish,
Michael. The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
According to Kelley, Parameters, Winter 1997-98, the author "demonstrates that terror ... did not cease with Ezhov's removal in late 1938 but continued unabated, in phases and under various directors, until Stalin's death in 1953.... The hard-hitting detail which Parrish marshals is most impressive, if at times tedious."
Persak, Krzysztof, and Lukasz Kaminski, eds. A Handbook of the Communist Security Apparatus in East Central Rurope, 1944-1989. Warsaw, Poland: Institute of National Remembrance, 2005.
Holland, IJI&C 19.2 (Summer 2006), sees this as an "exceptionally useful volume." Although the "volume's chapters are uneven,... each chapter provides a dependable base line of information."
Popplewell, Richard
J. "The KGB and the Control of the Soviet Bloc: The Case of East Germany."
Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 254-285.
Abstract: "The Soviet Union's spying on its 'friends' took various forms. First, the ordinary population was watched by its own security services. Second, the security services spied on the rank and file of the local communist parties.... Third, at times the leadership of the satellite communist parties also came under the close scrutiny both of the KGB and its local auxilieries."
Pringle, Robert
W. "Andropov's Counterintelligence State." International Journal
of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 13, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 193-203.
As KGB head from 1967 to 1982, Yuri Andropov "was strikingly successful as both a bureaucratic infighter and spymaster.... [But he did] enormous harm ... to the Soviet state he sought to protect. The dysfunctional counterintelligence state he instead perfected was unable to survive the challenges that followed his death."
Prunko, Donald H. "Recruitment in Moscow." Studies in Intelligence 13, no. 2 (Spring 1969): 87-106.
Tells the true story of the KGB recruitment of a secretary at the (perhaps) Swedish Embassy in Moscow in the early 1960s. The "techniques of compromise and blackmail were in the beginning employed with uncommon sublety and sophistication. When the secretary was reassigned to another country, however, the follow-up was so ham-handed ... that she was prompted to report to her own security authorities."
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