15 September 1999
15 September 1999
Andrew,
Christopher. "Arms for KGB's 'Irish friends.'" Times (London),
15 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
The author,"drawing on the KGB intelligence files smuggled out by Vasili Mitrokhin, reveals how the Russians used national liberation movements to foment race war in the United States and also provided arms to Irish terrorists to cause mayhem in the United Kingdom."
16 September 1999 Andrew,
Christopher. "Waging War Against the Dissidents." Times
(London), 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
"The present Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, proudly proclaims itself the heir to the KGB's foreign intelligence arm, the First Chief Directorate (FCD).... The SVR maintains that the FCD had nothing to do with the abuses of human rights perpetrated by the KGB's internal directorates. The top-secret files in the Mitrokhin Archive show that this claim is nonsense. The FCD was up to its neck in the war against the dissidents. It had no higher priority than crushing 'ideological subversion' wherever it raised its head."
Bremner,
Charles.
1. "Top French Socialist Named as KGB Spy." Times (London), 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
On 15 September 1999, Le Monde identified "Claude Estier, the leader of the governing Socialist party in the French Senate and a confidant of the late President Mitterrand,... as one of two high-placed 'agents of influence' cited in the files of the KGB which were smuggled out of Russia by Vasili Mitrokhin."
2. "Paris Shrugs Off Claims of KGB Hand on Its Shoulder." Times (London), 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
On 15 September 1999, "[t]he French establishment tried to shrug off claims that the country's civil service, politics and intellectual life had been riddled with Soviet agents throughout the Cold War years. The staff of Senator Claude Estier, identified by Le Monde as a key Soviet informant cited in the Mitrokhin archive, dismissed the affair as 'a hoary old chestnut.'"
Landay, Jonathan S.
"Explosive Book Documents KGB Exploits in the
West." Nando Times, 16 Sep. 1999. [http://www.nandotimes.com]
Reviews some of the details of Soviet spying in the West as portrayed in the Mitrokhin materials.
Nyquist,
J.R. "The Case of the KGB Librarian." WorldNetDaily, 16
Sep. 1999. [http:// www.worldnetdaily.com]
"The strangest thing [to emerge from the Mitrokhin material] is the support that Mitrokhin's celebrity has received from retired KGB Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who appeared on ABC's Nightline in order to praise the value of Mitrokhin's revelations. It is downright odd that the former deputy chief of KGB foreign intelligence should publicly bolster the credibility of a KGB traitor. Gen. Kalugin, after all, is no defector.... His disagreement with the old KGB is largely confined to a personality clash with his former boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov. In fact, Gen. Kalugin's memoirs contain brilliant examples of disinformation....
"[Thus,] Gen. Kalugin's appearance on ABC's Nightline program may have a sinister significance. The cautious analyst must be careful. A defector who brings us old news may be feeding us accusations against persons who were innocent of espionage. He might also be covering the tracks of some who were guilty."
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