hatchink fiendish plan to catch moose and squirrel

shothotbot — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:14:05 -0800

Interested in Soviet era spying by the KGB in the United States? Bummed that you cant get into the KGB archives? Well it turns out that someone copied all the good stuff already, and you can take a peek. Alexander Vassiliev was a KGB officer who turned to journalism in 1990. From 1993-96 he had access to the KGB archives for the 1930s to early 1950s to write notes for a book project on Soviet spying in the Stalin era. His original notebooks - including extensive verbatim transcriptions - were left behind in Moscow when he moved to London but smuggled out via an elaborate plan. There are eight notebooks, on the Cold War International History site there are scans, transliterations and translations of each notebook, free for nothing. Vassilev assisted in the transcriptions and transliterations. The whole story is in Alexander Vassiliev’s Notebooks: Provenance and Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Activities in the United States (pdf). "Since the KGB’s archives remain closed, Vassiliev’s notebooks are as close as we are likely to get to the actual documents for many years, likely decades"

'The story is dark enough, drawn from the plain public records, to send a chill to any heart.'

anastasiav — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:39:46 -0800

How the Other Half Lives :: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890)

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anastasiav — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:08:36 -0800

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hatchink fiendish plan to catch moose and squirrel

'The story is dark enough, drawn from the plain public records, to send a chill to any heart.'

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and more...