![]() In 1973, a former CIA operations officer in Latin America walked into the KGB rezidentura in Mexico City with what he claimed was a tranche of invaluable secrets about the United Statesâ covert operations in the hemisphere. (For a glossary of Soviet/Russian espionage terms, see 20th Committee.)įirst, the four manuals covered in the Daily Beast articles:ġ) From Russiaâs Secret Espionage Archives: The Art of the Dangle Now we are making all these manuals available to be downloaded in the Russian original, and also providing some translations of the table of contents and notes and summary translations of the contents for four of the manuals not previously covered. The Interpreter obtained a total of eight KGB manuals, four of which were used in Weiss’ series. Yet what is most intriguing about them is that these same methods are still used today - and now amplified with new technology. These internal documents from the 1970s and 1980s were used in an era before the Internet and mass electronic surveillance. The still-classified manuals expose the devious methods of the Soviet Union’s secret police not only to surveil but suborn their own citizens and foreigners in a vast project to extend the Kremlin’s power around the world. While some Western intelligence agencies or government specialists may have had some of the manuals in the past, they were not made available to the general public until now. Last year and earlier this year, Michael Weiss, The Interpreter’s founding editor, published a series of four articles ( here and here) in the Daily Beast on hitherto secret KGB training manuals. ![]()
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