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Author Haslam, Jonathan, author

Title Near and distant neighbors : a new history of Soviet intelligence / Jonathan Haslam
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Contents Cover -- Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Russian Intelligence Idiom (Soviet Period) -- Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Starting from Scratch -- The KRO -- The INO -- The Fourth/Razvedupr -- Jan Berzin -- Comintern -- Great Britain as Bête Noire -- The Threat of War Discounted -- 2. But Who was the Main Enemy? -- Changes at the Top -- Artuzov Moves Up -- Parparov Penetrates the German Foreign Ministry -- The Zarubins -- Operation Tarantella -- Naum Eitingon -- The Fourth Loses its Way
Aleksandr Korotkov -- The Importance of Rudolf Hess -- 5. The Test of War -- The Costs of Backwardness -- Deep-Seated Fears of a Separate Peace -- No to Killing Hitler -- The Cambridge Five Under a Cloud -- Faltering Progress in the United States -- Golos of America -- Leonid Kvasnikov and the Bomb -- 6. Postwar Advantage -- Abakumov in Charge -- The Main Enemy must Nonetheless be Doing Something Right -- Cryptolinguistics -- Cipher Warfare -- William Weisband -- Computer Catch-Up -- Deflated by an Intellectual Vacuum -- The Cost of Politicising Science -- 7. Breakdown -- War in Korea
Boris Solomatin -- Yuri Drozdov -- 10. The Computer Gap -- Help from Human Intelligence -- From Bits to Bytes -- Viktor Sheymov -- 11. Pride before the Fall -- The Extraordinary Achievements of Yuri Totrov -- The Pope in the Line of Fire -- The Strange Case of Vetrov -- GRU Research and Analysis -- Conclusion: Out from the Shadows -- Appendix 1: Soviet Foreign Intelligence Organisations -- Appendix 2: Operatives Who Betrayed the Régime, Including Defectors -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Starting from Scratch -- 2. But Who Was the Main Enemy? -- 3. Cryptography: Stunted by Neglect
Shambles in Shanghai: The Noulens Affair -- Stalin Subordinates the Fourth to the INO -- The Importance of whom you know: The Cambridge Five -- The Star Recruiter: Arnold Deutsch -- Building the "Gold Reserve" of Soviet Intelligence -- The Importance of Maclean -- Civil War in Spain -- Deutsch comes Unstuck -- War comes to the Rescue -- Stalin's Machine Infernale -- 3. Cryptography: Stunted by Neglect -- Making up for Lost Time -- Bokii-"The Head of all Secrets" -- The One-Time Pad -- Purloining Codebooks -- 4. What German Threat? -- Rebuilding the "Big House" -- Knowing what the British Knew
The Cambridge Five in Jeopardy -- The Collapse of U.S. Networks -- 8. The German Theatre -- Pitovranov -- Markus Wolf -- New Recruits -- Agent "Grail Spice" -- The Berlin Tunnel -- The Betrayal of William Fisher -- Ivan Serov -- The Portland Spies -- Oleg Pen'kovskii: Agent "Young" -- "Murat": The GRU within NATO -- Crisis over Missiles in Cuba: Operation Anadyr -- The Downfall of Gribanov -- The Profumo Affair -- Ivashutin takes Charge of the GRU -- 9. Loss of Faith -- Andropov takes Charge -- The London Purge -- "Aktivka" -- Dmitrii Polyakov: "Top Hat," "Bourbon," "Spectre," "Diplomat."
Summary Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous 'Cambridge Five' in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain's code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign 'friends' so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been more effective than when the Soviet Union began to collapse from within
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index
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Subject Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History
Secret service -- Soviet Union -- History
Military intelligence -- Soviet Union -- History
Espionage, Soviet -- History
Cryptography -- Soviet Union -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Cryptography.
Diplomatic relations.
Espionage, Soviet.
Intelligence service.
Military intelligence.
Politics and government.
Secret service.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
Subject Soviet Union.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191018114
0191018112