Near and Distant Neighbours : A New History of Soviet Intelligence.
Haslam, Jonathan.
Near and Distant Neighbours : A New History of Soviet Intelligence. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015. ©2015. - 1 online resource (396 pages)
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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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- 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 -- 4. What German Threat? -- 5. The Test of War -- 6. Postwar Advantage -- 7. Breakdown -- 8. The German Theatre -- 9. Loss of Faith -- 10. The Computer Gap -- 11. Pride Before the Fall -- Conclusion: Out from the Shadows -- Bibliography -- Archival Material and Official Publications -- Memoirs -- Monographs -- Periodicals -- Articles -- Index.
The true story of Soviet intelligence, from the very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War - now told in full for the first time.
9780191018114
1917-1991
Geheimdienst
Spionage
Sowjetunion
Secret service - Soviet Union - History.
Fernzugriff
Near and Distant Neighbours : A New History of Soviet Intelligence. - 1st ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015. ©2015. - 1 online resource (396 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- 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 -- 4. What German Threat? -- 5. The Test of War -- 6. Postwar Advantage -- 7. Breakdown -- 8. The German Theatre -- 9. Loss of Faith -- 10. The Computer Gap -- 11. Pride Before the Fall -- Conclusion: Out from the Shadows -- Bibliography -- Archival Material and Official Publications -- Memoirs -- Monographs -- Periodicals -- Articles -- Index.
The true story of Soviet intelligence, from the very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War - now told in full for the first time.
9780191018114
1917-1991
Geheimdienst
Spionage
Sowjetunion
Secret service - Soviet Union - History.
Fernzugriff