KGB The Inside Story

KGB: The Inside Story

Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky

HarperCollins Publishers, 1990 | First U.S. Edition | Hardcover with Dust Jacket

A fascinating Cold War history written with the extraordinary firsthand knowledge of Oleg Gordievsky, the senior KGB officer who secretly worked for British intelligence before his dramatic escape from the Soviet Union in 1985.

KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev traces the development of Soviet intelligence from the creation of the Cheka following the Russian Revolution through the final years of the Cold War. Historian Christopher Andrew combined extensive archival research with Gordievsky's more than two decades of experience inside the KGB, providing an unusually informed account of Soviet espionage, intelligence operations, and political influence abroad.

The book examines KGB activities throughout Europe and the United States, including Soviet penetration of Western governments, the Cambridge spy network, wartime intelligence operations, and prominent espionage cases. An extensive section of black-and-white photographs accompanies the text.

This is the 1990 U.S. first edition, published by HarperCollins and identified as such on the copyright page. The original red, black, and gold dust jacket is present.