Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

view does not constitute approval but, rather, is a legal and ethical ob-

ligation of former CIA employees.

NOTES

1. Christopher Andrews and Oleg Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story
   (New York: Harper Collins, 1990), 17.


2. George Leggett, The Cheka: Lenin’s Political Police(Oxford: Claren-
   don, 1981), 442ff. For intercepted letters: Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His
   Hangmen: The Dictator and Those Who Killed for Him(New York: Random
   House, 2004), 123.


3. Yuri Druzhnikov, Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov(London:
   Transaction, 1997), 137.


4. Robert W. Stephan, Stalin’s Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence
   against the Nazis(Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2003), 61.


5. Andrew Weier, Black Earth(New York: Norton, 1983), 208. Figures for
   death and imprisonments are taken from Anne Applebaum, GULAG: A History
   (New York: Random House, 2003), 578–583.


6. “Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology,”
   quoted in Christopher Andrews and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the
   Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB(New York:
   Basic Books, 1999), 218.


7. Amy Knight, Beria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
   University Press, 1994), is the best study of Beria. Also available is a biogra-
   phy written by his son, as well as memoirs from other members of his profes-
   sional circle.


8. Mikhail Gorbachev, Memoirs(New York: Little, Brown, 1995), 122.


9. Aleksandr Feklisov, The Man behind the Rosenbergs(New York:
   Enigma Books, 2001).


10. See the Memorial website, http://www.memorial.ru.


11. For the fate of the Cheka’s files, see Leggett, The Cheka, 360. For the re-
    port on purging files in 1959, see Victor Cherkashin and Gregory Feifer, Spy
    Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer(New York: Basic Books, 2005), 53.


12. See particularly the debate over Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudapla-
    tov,Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness—a Soviet Spymaster
    (Boston: Little Brown, 1994).


13. Venona message dated 21 September 1944 in Nigel West, VENONA:
    The Greatest Secret of the Cold War(London: HarperCollins, 1999), 143–44.


14. David E. Murphy, Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey, Battle-
    ground Berlin: CIA vs KGB in the Cold War(New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univer-
    sity Press, 1997), 398.

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