SOURCE: Business Insider
7-7-14
tags: KGB, Soviet Spy
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7-7-14
KGB Documents Detailing Who's Who In Soviet Spying Have Finally Been Published
Breaking Newstags: KGB, Soviet Spy
The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage.
Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history — a who's who of Soviet spying — were released Monday after being held in secret for two decades.
The files smuggled out of Russia in 1992 by senior KGB official Vasili Mitrokhin describe sabotage plots, booby-trapped weapons caches and armies of agents under cover in the West — the real-life inspiration for the fictional Soviet moles in "The Americans" TV series.
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