The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera
The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man Vasili Mitrokhin turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.REVIEWS FOR RUSSIANS AMONG US
‘This [is a] superb study of the illegals system … In the West it was erroneously assumed that the illegals programme ended with the Cold War, but as Corera proves it was ramped up and modernised by Putin for the 21st century … Alexander Poteyev was a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan who rose to become deputy head of Directorate SHis story, told here for the first time, is an extraordinary one… Corera tells this astonishing tale with deft authority, placing it in the wider context of Russian intelligence strategy. Few are better versed in the intricacies of the continuing spy war between East and West’ Ben Macintyre, The Times
‘Extremely readable … A lively and disturbing account of the extraordinary events that led to, and the terrible ones that followed, the Vienna spy swap in 2010, an episode perhaps best remembered in the West for Anna Chapman, the strikingly beautiful socialite who turned out to be a Russian spy' Telegraph
‘A lively and engrossing account of the FBI’s decade-long counterintelligence operation … Corera correctly notes that the US and UK were slow to appreciate Russia’s malign intent once Putin became president … Offers a persuasive account of how Moscow had adapted its espionage toolkit … A compelling book that combines good storytelling with subtle understanding of spy methods old and new’ Luke Harding, Observer
Gordon Corera was BBC security correspondent for over twenty years covering intelligence, terrorism and security issues before leaving to launch The Rest is Classified podcast, which he writes and hosts with David McCloskey. He is the author of Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents, Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe, Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies (entitled Cyberspies in the US), MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service (also entitled The Art of Betrayal), and Shopping for Bombs. He was educated at Oxford and Harvard universities, and lives in London. Mitrokhin’s priceless archive is now housed in Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780008644796 |
| ISBN 10 | 0008644799 |
| Title | The Spy in the Archive |
| Author | Gordon Corera |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2025-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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