he Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB's main target, of course, was the United States.Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century.Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB's covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB's attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB's use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB's attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations.

Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991xv -- Transliteration of Russian Names xvii -- 1 Mitrokhin Archive 1 -- 2 From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU 23 -- 3 Great Illegals 42 -- 4 Magnificent Five 56 -- 5 Terror 68 -- 6 War 89 -- 7 Grand Alliance 104 -- 8 Victory 122 -- 9 From War to Cold War 137 -- 10 Main Adversary -- Part 1 North American Illegals in the 1950's 162 -- 11 Main Adversary -- Part 2 Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War 176 -- 12 Main Adversary -- Part 3 Illegals after "Abel" 190 -- 13 Main Adversary -- Part 4 Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War 203 -- 14 Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary 224 -- 15 Progress Operations -- Part 1 Crushing the Prague Spring 247 -- 16 Progress Operations -- Part 2 Spying on the Soviet Bloc 262 -- 17 KGB and Western Communist Parties 276 -- 18 Eurocommunism 294 -- 19 Ideological Subversion -- Part 1 War Against the Dissidents 307 -- 20 Ideological Subversion -- Part 2 Victory of the Dissidents 322 -- 21 SIGINT in the Cold War 337 -- 22 Special Tasks -- Part 1 From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev 356 -- 23 Special Tasks -- Part 2 Andropov Era and Beyond 374 -- 24 Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 1 After the "Magnificent Five" 397 -- 25 Cold War Operations Against Britain -- Part 2 After Operation FOOT 417 -- 26 Federal Republic of Germany 437 -- 27 France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures 460 -- 28 Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches 486 -- 29 Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity 508 -- 30 Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc 517 -- 31 Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency 544 -- A KGB Chairmen, 1917-26 566 -- B Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99 567 -- C Organization of the KGB 568 -- D Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate 569 -- E Organization of a KGB Residency 570.