Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB Foreign Operations, 1975-1985
- ISBN-10
- 0804722285
- ISBN-13
- 9780804722285
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- Christopher M. Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky
Description
This revealing selection of highly classified material provides a fascinating inside look at the workings and the thinking of the KGB. The informative commentary by Christopher Andrew is based on joint analysis of the documents with Oleg Gordievsky, a former KGB colonel who had been working as a double agent for British intelligence.
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