Sep 10, 2007 a group of historians from lithuania have posted oncesecret documents from the kgb online at. In publishing 146 of them, joshua rubenstein and alexander gribanov provide a longoverdue look at. Nov 16, 20 after the dissolution of the ussr, the kgb was split into the federal security service and the foreign intelligence service of the russian federation. Suppressed or difficult to find documents about the soviet union during both the socialist period up to the mid1950s and the revisionist period until the final collapse of the ussr in 1991.
Dalia kuodyte, director of the genocide and resistance research center, explained that the site was created to prove beyond doubt that the baltic states were occupied by the soviet union after world war ii see ap article. Ronald reagan document 5 1981, kgb chief yuri andropov candidly. The kgb archive file type, file format description, and windows programs listed on this page have been individually researched and verified by the fileinfo team. Sep 29, 2010 the ethnic history of the abkhazians in the xixxx centuries, by tejmuraz achugba. Like the cia, the soviet and now russian spy agency known as the kgb has engaged in decades of secret operations across the world, ranging from blackmail to kidnapping.
After the dissolution of the ussr, the kgb was split into the federal security service and the foreign intelligence service of the russian federation. Hes a historian, and he did have access to the kgb archives. For wartime, kgb had ready sabotage operations arms caches in target countries. We strive for 100% accuracy and only publish information about file formats that we have tested and validated. All during this time, of course, the cia and the kgb engaged in an elaborate international dance often in thirdworld countries like angola and nicaragua, involving agents, double agents, propaganda, disinformation, underthetable arms sales, interference with elections, and nighttime exchanges of suitcases filled with rubles or hundred. This campaign by a foreign adversary represents a serious threat to u. Thousands of secret kgb espionage documents are now. The documents, including more than a hundred pages devoted to kgb claims about its agents, controllers and cultivations in britain during the.
Assosiateprofessor, directorofthecenterforappliedcriminal. Nkvdkgb activities and its cooperation with other secret. The online document archive features newly declassifed documents from former. The central apparatus of the kgb functionally duplicated the activity of the principal department s of the communist party central committee cc cpsu. Soviet state security system to describe and to document the activities.
In the same year she started working at the department of archiving and filing ser. The kgb file of andrei sakharov central intelligence agency. Declaration of the revolutionary committee of the ssr of georgia on independence of the ssr of abkhazia 21 may 1921. A kgb case officer was a combination of a priest, a therapist, a best friend and also a mortal enemy. The mitrokhin archive is a collection of handwritten notes made secretly by kgb archivist vasili mitrokhin during his thirty years as a kgb archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the first chief directorate. When he defected to the united kingdom in 1992 he brought the archive with him the official historian of mi5, christopher andrew, wrote two books, the sword and the shield. Nkvdkgb activities and its cooperation with other secret services.
During the past year, however, the kgb got plenty of publicity and has suffered. The inside story was a scholarly work on the history of kgb actions against western governments produced from archival and open sources, with the critical addition. When he defected to the united kingdom in 1992 he brought the archive with him. Tradecraft included stealing and photographing documents, code names. Search the history of over 431 billion web pages on the internet. Our goal is to help you understand what a file with a. If you grafted the central intelligence agency cia with the federal bureau of investigation fbi, added a few hefty tablespoons of paranoia and repression, and translated the whole megillah into russian, you might wind up with something like the kgb. Recently released kgb documents show that one half of all the soviet unions clergy were agents or undercover kgb employees until at least the end of the gorbachev era. He was somebody who was trying to get you to do things that would ultimately destroy yourself. Vilnius a lithuanian research center has launched a web site that allows the public to access original kgb documents online. Abkhazia is situated on the shore of the black sea and bordered by the caucasus mountain range to the north, the russian federation to the west and georgia to the east.
The kgbs responsibilities also included the protection of the countrys political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population. Among disappeared documents, there were personal records and work records of kgb agents that could be the most reliable and direct way to clear up the activity of the agents. Its presence in the west represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the. History project issue 5 woodrow wilson international center for scholars, washington, d. To cite this article clogg, rachel 1995 documents from the kgb archive in sukhum. The documents contained in the kgb file of andrei sakharov were originally given to his widow, elena bonner, by the russian foreign counterintelligence service and supplemented by additional kgb documents from communist party and state archives. Telegram from the revolutionary committee of abkhazia of march 26, 1921.
More about publishing of the kgb documents genocid. Sorge was the man whom i regard as the most formidable spy in history. Jul 07, 2014 the documents have been held in secret since vasili mitrokhin, a former kgb officialturneddissident, snuck them out of the collapsed soviet union in 1992. View the history of kgb research papers on academia. The september 11th sourcebooks national security archive. Kgb files may fill holes in history, but with what. The department of history and records of the russian foreign. Document 1 mfs, report on the meetings with the kgb of the ussr 30 november 1 december 1964 bstu, mfs, sdm 576, p. This top secret 639 page history of the soviet state security organs was completed in 1977 under the auspices of victor chebrikov,the deputy head of the kgbwho later became head of the agencythe book was intended for use in the kgbs special academy for the training of senior officers. Documents from the office of the federal commissioner for the stasi records bstu translated for cwihp by bernd schaefer. The kgb translated in english as committee for state security, was the secret police that was. Operation infektion soviet bloc intelligence and its aids. The best books on books from the kgb archives five books. The kgb history shows that the soviet intelligence service and secret police checka changed many names and functions before it transformed into the kgb.
Kgb agents fate of notable persons arrested recollections of persons who knew the individuals arrested samples of official documents, i. Suppressed or hard to find documents about the ussr. In his important report, pacepa gives this estimate. The various name changes of cheka and their dates are given as follows, cheka december 1917 gpu february 1922 ogpu july 1923 gugb july 1934 released for publicnkgb february 1941. Kgb provided new documents on the wallenberg case, but swedish experts complained that those files still dont solve the mystery of wallenbergs disappearance after he was arrested by the soviets in 1945. Kgb operations in north america history of the soviet.
The kgb archives received an order to remove from repositories and to dispose of material, documents, personal files, and case records of persons accused under article 70 of the criminal code of the russian federation of antisoviet agitation and propaganda. In 1990 1991, many kgb documents were destroyed or transported to russia. According to declassified documents, the kgb aggressively recruited former nazi intelligence officers after the war. The scalifeklisov channel in the cuban missile crisis by alexander fursenko and timothy naftali from the time that former state depart ment official roger hilsman revealed in. Kgb full english name committee for state security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the soviet union. The documents presented here shed light on the most important moments in the history of the soviet war in afghanistanthe afghan governments requests for assistance, the soviet unions initial refusal of troops, the reversal of this policy by a small group of the politburo and the soviet decision to invade. Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished kgb. Kgb falsification of documents 29 june 1944 release 4 addeddate 20110511 12. Most of the secrets that we know about the kgb today are because of one manvasili mitrokhin. To mark the 30th anniversary of the chornobyl npp accident, the center published 32 kgb of the ukrainian ssr classified documents about the causes and aftermath of the accident, as. Patriarch kirill, an agent of kgb tradition in action.
Online document archive the journal of cold war studies. Its presence in the west represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the kgbs. Abkhazia in the stalin years, central asian survey, 14. Secret archive of toplevel kgb documents smuggled out of the. Report of kgbs governance about the emergency stop of chernobyl nuclear power plant unit no. Appendix to documents from the kgb archive in sukhum. Spring 1995 new evidence on the using kgb documents.
Short coure, decision of the central committee of the c. The current collection of translated documents marks the result of an agreement between the history and public. Topsecret history of kgb, 1977, chapters 112 and appendix. Mitrokhin was an archivist for the kgb for 30 years before he defected to the. Apr 27, 2016 as the documents are studied, they are gradually digitized, and currently published on the website of the ukrainian center for research on the liberation movement.
In the documents section, pdfs of scanned in original kgb files are available for download but of course they are all in russian. Thousands of secret kgb espionage documents are now available. Yes, by v khristoforov its also called stalingrad and was published a couple of years ago by the russian academy. The documents have been held in secret since vasili mitrokhin, a former kgb officialturneddissident, snuck them out of the collapsed soviet. Jul 26, 2018 the history of the kgb and its legendary methods the russian intelligence agency kgb was legendary for its spycraft, violent methods, and farreaching influence on world affairs. The history of the kgb and its legendary methods the russian intelligence agency kgb was legendary for its spycraft, violent methods, and farreaching influence on world affairs. Secret archive of toplevel kgb documents smuggled out of. The orthodox masquerade patriarch kirill, an agent of kgb. Moreover, each officer of the first chief directorate foreign intelligence was expected to spend 25 percent of his time conceiving and implementing them. The kgb association of former intelligence officers.
Jul 26, 2019 a kgb case officer was a combination of a priest, a therapist, a best friend and also a mortal enemy. Documents in the collection are in russian and some in ukrainian, with all titles translated into english. But unlike the berlin wall, the walls of the archives have yet to come down completely, and any celebrating may be premature. The kgb served a multifaceted role outside of and within the soviet union, working as both an intelligence agency and a force of secret police. Jun 18, 2012 mitrokhin was a career kgb agent whose secret project smuggling documents out of the kgbs archives became the subject of the 1999 book the sword and the shield, which he collaborated on.
The second sensational volume of one of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years the times when vasili mitrokhin revealed his archive of russian intelligence material to the world it caused an international sensation. A group of historians from lithuania have posted oncesecret documents from the kgb online at. To obtain information about rand studies or to order documents, call distribution. Pdf the creation of the federalnaia sluzhba bezopasnosti in 1995 represented the. Mitrokhin was a career kgb agent whose secret project smuggling documents out of the kgbs archives became the subject of the 1999 book the sword and the shield, which he collaborated on. Sep 26, 2018 in his important report, pacepa gives this estimate. Now, however, the archives of the former soviet union are slowly opening up, and, little by little, documents of some real historical value are appearing.
The mitrokhin archive ii pdf download full download pdf book. The chernobyl files collection contains 152 documents totaling over 500 pages, and features full pagelevel digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is crosssearchable with numerous other east view digital resources. Media in category documents of the soviet union the following 161 files are in this category, out of 161 total. The kgbs service a was the unit tasked with conducting active measures, and numerous kgb residencies abroad were assigned officers dealing exclusively with them. So far, the documents made available have been just what was. The soviet unions main internal and external security agency from 1954 until the breakup of the u. On the organization of party propaganda in connection with the publication of the history of the c. The documents of the collection represent the activities of territorial and local kgb organs fro m practically all geographic regions of the former soviet union. Kgb documents revealed online perspectives on history aha. The idea that the kgb doesnt know the story is ludicrous, says christopher andrew, a cambridge university historian. The sword and the shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times. This topsecret 639page history of the soviet state security organs was completed in 1977 under the auspices of viktor chebrikov, the deputy head of the kgb who later became head of the agency.