Аннотация

John Barron's work details the history of the
KGB and tradecraft employed running agents in intelligence operations.
The KGB is the commonly used acronym for the Russian Komitet
gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security. It was the
national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and
was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police
organization during that time. The The details how it operated legal and
illegal espionage residencies in target countries where a legal
resident gathered intelligence while based at the Soviet Embassy or
Consulate, and, if caught, was protected from prosecution by diplomatic
immunity. At best, the compromised spy either returned to the Soviet
Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government
of the target country. The illegal resident spied, unprotected by
diplomatic immunity, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic and
trade missions. In its early history, the KGB valued illegal spies more
than legal spies, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with
greater ease. The KGB residency executed four types of espionage: (i)
political, (ii) economic, (iii) military-strategic, and (iv)
disinformation. The false-identity or legend assumed by a USSR-born
illegal spy was elaborate, using the life of either a "live double"
(participant to the fabrication) or a "dead double" (whose identity is
tailored to the spy). The agent then substantiated his or her legend by
living it in a foreign country, before emigrating to the target country,
thus the sending of US-bound illegal residents via the Soviet embassy
in Ottawa, Canada. Tradecraft included stealing and photographing
documents, code-names, contacts, targets, and dead letter boxes, and
working as a "friend of the cause" or agents provocateur, who would
infiltrate the target group to sow dissension, influence policy, and
arrange kidnappings and assassinations.

Год: 1974
Язык: English
Страницы: 623
ISBN 10: 0553202545
ISBN 13: 9780553202540