ISBN10: 1853676462, ISBN13: 9781853676468, [publisher: Manas Publications] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Biological Espionage represents an important and unique breakthrough, shedding light for the first time on the hitherto unsuspected operations of a branch within the KGB's famed Directorate S that has survived into present times within the modern Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc the West's intelligence agencies were inundated with offers from KGB retirees to disclose information that they hoped would be considered valuable. One joke circulating was that there were so many volunteers seeking a new life in the capitalist world that prospective defectors were invited to form orderly queues outside embassies. Few of these individuals achieved any publicity, apart from Vasili Mitrokhin, who was to achieve worldwide fame for the extraordinary col- lection of documents he had copied while serving as the KGB First Chief Directorate's archivist over several decades. Mitrokhin, who died in England in 2004, revealed unprecedented quantities of information, especially about Directorate S of the First Chief Director
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