Mennevee. Roger. Les Services Secrets Soviétiques: Evolution et Méthodes d'Action (1917-1957). Paris: Les Documents Politiques, Diplomatiques et Financiers, 1957. Mennevee. Roger. Les Services Secrets Soviétiques: Evolution et Méthodes d'Action (1917-1957). Paris: Les Documents Politiques, Diplomatiques et Financiers, 1957.
Pforzheimer, Studies 6.2 (Spring 1962), identifies this as "a compilation from the monthly issues of Les Documents Politiques, Diplomatiques et Financiers, which chronicles disclosures of Soviet espionage activities" around the world.
Metzl, Lothar. "Reflections on the Soviet Secret Police and Intelligence Services." Orbis 18, no. 3 (Fall 1974).
Noel-Baker, Francis. The Spy Web: A Study of Communist Espionage. London: Batchworth, 1954.
Pforzheimer, Studies 6.2 (Spring 1962), notes that this work includes "the wartime Sorge case in Japan, the Canadian affair, the Vavoudes group in Greece, and the Andersson case in Sweden."
Popov, Georgii K. The Tcheka: The Red Inquisition. London: Philpot, 1925.
Wilcox: "Early account of Soviet secret police, repression apparatus."
Richelson, Jeffrey
T. Sword and Shield: The Soviet Intelligence and Security Apparatus.
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1986.
NameBase: "Political science professor Jeffrey Richelson is one of the few writers who treats the topic of Soviet intelligence with the detached thoroughness that it ultimately deserves.... Each of the[] 12 chapters has an average of 70 endnotes, frequently citing authors who are academic specialists on some aspect of the Soviet system."
Romerstein, Herbert, and Stanislav Levchenko. The KGB against the "Main Enemy": How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates against the U.S. Lexington, MA: Lexington, 1989. [Chambers]
Rositzke, Harry. The KGB: The Eyes of Russia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.
For Rocca and Dziak, this book's "lack of documentation and some debatable assertions ... limit [its] utility."
Seth, Ronald. Unmasked: The Story of Soviet Espionage. New York: Hawthorne, 1965.
Wilcox: Russian spying 1917-1960, including countermeasures against it.
Shipley, Peter.
Hostile Action: The KGB and Secret Soviet Operations in Britain.
London: St Martin's, 1989. New York: St Martin's, 1990.
Surveillant 1.1 says that the author "documents well the activities and the response of the British authorities to the perceived dangers."
Kerr, I&NS 7.4, views this "general yet lively historical survey" as "a useful contribution to scholarship" on Soviet active measures. The author's central thesis is that "from Lenin to Gorbachev, there has been more continuity than discontinuity in the strategic aims, tactics and methods of Soviet hostile action against Britain." However, Shipley's assessment of Soviet propaganda efforts "exaggerates the effect or success of the propaganda."
Solovyov, Vladimir.
"Knowing the KGB." Partisan Review 49 (1982): 167-183.
Rocca and Dziak: "A most insightful, monitory appraisal."
Solovyov, Vladimir,
and Elena Kllepikova. Behind the High Kremlin Walls. New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1986.
Wilcox: "Former Soviet journalists discuss USSR disinformation, KGB."
Thomas, Paul.
Le KGB en Belgique. Brussels: Editions J.M. Collet, 1987.
Huygens, IJI&C 2.3, describes this book as a "brief overview," that gives a "case by case exposé, usually too short, describing about twenty espionage affairs."
To Stengers, I&NS 5.3, the book is "a competent [journalistic] compilation of Belgian and foreign press material.... Belgian spycatchers mainly belong to a civilian secret service, the Sûreté de l'Etat, about which Thomas gives some information."
Tsybov, C.I., and N.F. Chistyakov. Front Taynoy Voyny [The Front of Invisible War]. Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1964.
Cited in Schecter and Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World (1992).
U.S. Library
of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Soviet Intelligence and
Security Services. 2 vols. Washington, DC: GPO, 1972-1975. [Petersen]
White, John Baker. The Soviet Spy System. London: Falcon Press, 1948. [Chambers]
Wise, David, and Thomas B. Ross. The Espionage Establishment. New York: Random House, 1967. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. New York: Bantam Books, 1968. [pb]
Clark comment: This work garnered widespread attention when it was published, basically because it provided in a popular format information that many people had not previously seen. The authors discuss the espionage systems of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, and China, and present some relatively interesting material on Soviet illegals.
Pforzheimer says the book's "section on the CIA is weak; however the chapter on the British intelligence services reveals considerably more than had previously been published. Comments on the Chinese intelligence services and activities are of little or no value."
The absence of source citations and a bibliography bothers Constantinides, but he still finds that the sections on the Soviet Union and Great Britain "are marked by some good material."
Wolin, Simon,
and Robert M. Slusser, eds. The Soviet Secret Police. New York: Praeger, 1957. London: Methuen, 1957. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1964.
Pforzheimer says this is "one of the better books on the Soviet intelligence and security services and a 'core' book essential to further study of the subject."
Wolton, Thierry.
Le KGB en France. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1986.
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