KGB: The Secret Work Of Soviet Secret Agents

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good/Good. 1974. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo 0340189045 Dust jacket complete, unclipped, closed tears, wear & chipped to edges, within a clear protective sleeve, , creasing to flap. Black cloth with bright gold titles to spine. No ownership markings. Photographs. 462 pages clean and tight. The KGB, or Committee for State Security, is the principal instrument through which the Soviet Union is ruled and Soviet foreign policy is executed. As such, it impinges on the lives of nearly 250 million individuals in the Soviet Union and countless others in nations affected by the Soviet Union's presence. Until now, there has been no definitive book that explains precisely what the KGB is, all that it does, and precisely how it exercises its largely unseen influence upon the world. This comprehensive work, the result of four years detailed research, fills a significant void in the literature of contemporary affairs. The author has enlisted the cooperation of numerous Western security services and former KGB officers, many of whom had never before talked openly about their experiences. As a consequence, KGB is filled with unique information and factual revelations of headline proportions. The book discloses: * how the KGB secretly manipulated Egyptian president Nasser by recruiting his most trusted adviser, and how it tried to depose Fidel Castro but was thwarted by a system it had helped to build; *how a Soviet diplomat intimately involved in intrigues aimed at establishing Soviet control of the Middle East turned out to be an American spy; * how the KGB has initiated a vast new campaign to intimidate Jews and silence dissent within the Soviet Union; * how the KGB helped the IRA provisionals by sending shipments of arms from Czechoslovakia; * how the KGB repeatedly entered one of the most guarded of all American installations and stole hundreds of secret documents so important that they were rushed to Moscow for Khrushchev's personal perusal; .