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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence / Robert W. Pringle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligencePublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxv, 421 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442253186
  • 1442253185
  • 9781786844026
  • 1786844028
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet IntelligenceDDC classification:
  • 327.1247003 23
LOC classification:
  • UB252.R8
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Contents:
Entries A-Z -- The evolution of Soviet State Security -- KGB Chairs, 1917-1991 -- Russian foreign intelligence organizations, 1920- -- Chiefs of Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence, 1920- -- Russian Security Services, 1991- -- Heads of Military Intelligence (GRU), 1918- -- Venona code names and encryption -- Loss of life in the Stalin Era -- Agents and programs betrayed by Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard -- Maskirovka: deception on nuclear weapons programs -- Bibliography -- About the author.
Abstract: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest detail on Cold War espionage cases and the Putin-era intelligence community.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-420).

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Entries A-Z -- The evolution of Soviet State Security -- KGB Chairs, 1917-1991 -- Russian foreign intelligence organizations, 1920- -- Chiefs of Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence, 1920- -- Russian Security Services, 1991- -- Heads of Military Intelligence (GRU), 1918- -- Venona code names and encryption -- Loss of life in the Stalin Era -- Agents and programs betrayed by Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Edward Lee Howard -- Maskirovka: deception on nuclear weapons programs -- Bibliography -- About the author.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest detail on Cold War espionage cases and the Putin-era intelligence community.

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