12/30/2023 0 Comments Kgb archiver worksIf the relevant footnote gives a K file number and then an item number (eg: K5-22) it means that the relevant entry will be in MITN 2 and the Archives Centre list gives the old K number for each of the volumes (eg: MITN 2/1 on “The Church” was formerly K1). Unfortunately it is not always easy to match the item numbers to the page numbers in these volumes, but the chapters should match up. The volumes referred to are MITN series 1, the first volumes that Mitrokhin produced while in Russia and arranged by place. If these give the citation “vol 9, ch 6” for instance, it means that the relevant entry should be found in MITN 1/9 if “vol 7”, you need MITN 1/7. Use the index to find the text you need and look at the footnotes. Readers may find it helpful to use Mitrokhin’s and Professor Christopher Andrew’s published guides to the archive, available in the Archives Centre reading room. What is the best way of finding material in the archive?Ĭopies of this collection level description and catalogue are available at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge and on the ArchiveSearch website. Chekisms Tales of the Cheka: A KGB Anthology, Vasiliy Mitrokhin (Yurasov Press, 2008).US edition: The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (Basic Books, 2005 paperback edition, 2006. The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin (Allen Lane, 2005 Penguin revised paperback edition, 2006).KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer’s Handbook 1st Edition by Vasiliy Mitrokhin (Routledge, 2002).US edition: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin (Basic Books, 1999 paperback edition, 2000).The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin (Allen Lane, 1999 Penguin revised paperback edition, 2000).Prior to its deposit in the Churchill Archives Centre the archive formed the basis of several publications on both sides of the Atlantic (with foreign translations), including: How does the archive relate to the published works by Professor Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin? One is the KGB archive – which is not open and very difficult to get into – and the other is here at Churchill College where Mitrokhin’s own typescript notes are today being opened for all the world to see”. In 2014, at the time of their opening, Professor Christopher Andrew, the only historian hitherto allowed access to the archive, and author of two global bestsellers with Mitrokhin, said: “There are only two places in the world where you’ll find material like this. Now, Mitrokhin’s files are open at the Churchill Archives Centre, where they sit alongside the personal papers of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. In 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he, his family and his archive were exfiltrated by the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service. From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive – with unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence gathering operations.Īt the same time, having grown disillusioned with the brutal oppression of the Soviet regime, he was taking secret handwritten notes of the material and smuggling them out of the building each evening.
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