Near and distant neighbors : a new history of Soviet intelligence /

Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haslam, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Intelligence service > Soviet Union > History.
Secret service > Soviet Union > History.
Military intelligence > Soviet Union > History.
Espionage, Soviet > History.
Cryptography > Soviet Union > History.
Service des renseignements > URSS > Histoire.
Service secret > URSS > Histoire.
Service des renseignements militaires > URSS > Histoire.
Espionnage soviétique > Histoire.
Cryptographie > URSS > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Cryptography
Diplomatic relations
Espionage, Soviet
Intelligence service
Military intelligence
Politics and government
Secret service
Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement.
URSS > Relations extérieures.
Soviet Union
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Russian Intelligence Idiom (Soviet Period)
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Starting from Scratch
  • The KRO
  • The INO
  • The Fourth/Razvedupr
  • Jan Berzin
  • Comintern
  • Great Britain as Bête Noire
  • The Threat of War Discounted
  • 2. But Who was the Main Enemy?
  • Changes at the Top
  • Artuzov Moves Up
  • Parparov Penetrates the German Foreign Ministry
  • The Zarubins
  • Operation Tarantella
  • Naum Eitingon
  • The Fourth Loses its Way.
  • Aleksandr Korotkov
  • The Importance of Rudolf Hess
  • 5. The Test of War
  • The Costs of Backwardness
  • Deep-Seated Fears of a Separate Peace
  • No to Killing Hitler
  • The Cambridge Five Under a Cloud
  • Faltering Progress in the United States
  • Golos of America
  • Leonid Kvasnikov and the Bomb
  • 6. Postwar Advantage
  • Abakumov in Charge
  • The Main Enemy must Nonetheless be Doing Something Right
  • Cryptolinguistics
  • Cipher Warfare
  • William Weisband
  • Computer Catch-Up
  • Deflated by an Intellectual Vacuum
  • The Cost of Politicising Science
  • 7. Breakdown
  • War in Korea.
  • Boris Solomatin
  • Yuri Drozdov
  • 10. The Computer Gap
  • Help from Human Intelligence
  • From Bits to Bytes
  • Viktor Sheymov
  • 11. Pride before the Fall
  • The Extraordinary Achievements of Yuri Totrov
  • The Pope in the Line of Fire
  • The Strange Case of Vetrov
  • GRU Research and Analysis
  • Conclusion: Out from the Shadows
  • Appendix 1: Soviet Foreign Intelligence Organisations
  • Appendix 2: Operatives Who Betrayed the Régime, Including Defectors
  • Notes
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Starting from Scratch
  • 2. But Who Was the Main Enemy?
  • 3. Cryptography: Stunted by Neglect.
  • Shambles in Shanghai: The Noulens Affair
  • Stalin Subordinates the Fourth to the INO
  • The Importance of whom you know: The Cambridge Five
  • The Star Recruiter: Arnold Deutsch
  • Building the "Gold Reserve" of Soviet Intelligence
  • The Importance of Maclean
  • Civil War in Spain
  • Deutsch comes Unstuck
  • War comes to the Rescue
  • Stalin's Machine Infernale
  • 3. Cryptography: Stunted by Neglect
  • Making up for Lost Time
  • Bokii-"The Head of all Secrets"
  • The One-Time Pad
  • Purloining Codebooks
  • 4. What German Threat?
  • Rebuilding the "Big House"
  • Knowing what the British Knew.
  • The Cambridge Five in Jeopardy
  • The Collapse of U.S. Networks
  • 8. The German Theatre
  • Pitovranov
  • Markus Wolf
  • New Recruits
  • Agent "Grail Spice"
  • The Berlin Tunnel
  • The Betrayal of William Fisher
  • Ivan Serov
  • The Portland Spies
  • Oleg Pen'kovskii: Agent "Young"
  • "Murat": The GRU within NATO
  • Crisis over Missiles in Cuba: Operation Anadyr
  • The Downfall of Gribanov
  • The Profumo Affair
  • Ivashutin takes Charge of the GRU
  • 9. Loss of Faith
  • Andropov takes Charge
  • The London Purge
  • "Aktivka"
  • Dmitrii Polyakov: "Top Hat," "Bourbon," "Spectre," "Diplomat."

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