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Jul 7, 2014 · The documents have been held in secret since Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB official-turned-dissident, snuck them out of the collapsed Soviet Union in 1992. Mitrokhin first tried bringing them to ...
The Mitrokhin Archive refers to a collection of handwritten notes about secret KGB operations spanning the period between the 1930s and 1980s made by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin which he shared with the British intelligence in the early 1990s. [ 1 ] Mitrokhin, who had worked at KGB headquarters in Moscow from 1956 to 1985, first offered his ...
Jul 7, 2014 · Jul 7, 2014, 11:04 AM PDT. Over 20 years after being smuggled out of Russia, a trove of KGB documents are being opened up to the public for the first time. The leaked documents include thousands ...
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Jul 7, 2014 · From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive – with unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence gathering operations. At the same time, having grown disillusioned with the brutal oppression of the Soviet regime, he was ...
To make an appointment to use the Archives Centre E. archives@chu.cam.ac.uk or T. +44 1223 336087. For more information see the Visit Us section of the website. You will need to show two forms of identification in order to register with us. — Allen Packwood 8 November 2016. KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive are now open for ...
Oct 28, 2016 · In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist, defected to the West with a trove of top secret documents from the Soviet intelligence agency, which helped expose many Russian agents and assets in ...
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