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When Vasili Mitrokhin defected to Britain in 1992, he brought with him six cases of handwritten notes copied from the KGB's most secret files — material spanning from the October Revolution to the eve of the Gorbachev era. The FBI called it the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source. In this members episode, we go beyond the story of the man himself and into what the archive actually revealed: the operational detail of the Cambridge Five, the atom spy network, the KGB's assassination programme, its signals intelligence operations against Washington, its war against the Soviet dissidents, and — in Volume Two — the full sweep of Soviet operations across Cuba, Nicaragua, the Middle East, India and Afghanistan. This is what Mitrokhin risked his life to expose.

📚 Sources & Further Reading (affiliate links):📕 The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin📘 The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin📕 The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera