The World Was Going Our Way
The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
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By Vasili Mitrokhin
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- On Sale
- Oct 10, 2006
- Page Count
- 736 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465003136
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“Astonishing … One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years.” ―Times (UK)
The Baltic, 1992: A shabbily dressed old man enters a British embassy with a sheaf of top-secret documents hidden at the bottom of his battered suitcase. Ex-KGB worker Vasili Mitrokhin was about to reveal the most sensational intelligence archive the world has seen.
The World Was Going Our Way reveals in full the secrets of this astonishing cache, showing for the first time the extent of the KGB’s influence around the world, from making friends with Fidel Castro in Cuba to starting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. For over twenty years, the KGB believed that the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War against the West.
Telling untold stories of conspiracies combined with bizarre black comedy on a global scale, this exposé of one of the world’s most powerful secret organizations transforms our understanding of the Cold War.
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“A skillful and comprehensive account of KGB ‘active measures,’ ‘dirty tricks,’ and signal human intelligence gathering everywhere from Latin America and Africa to Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan, and ‘unofficial Islam’ inside the Soviet Union itself.”Foreign Affairs
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“Revelatory.”NPR
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“A well-written, highly engrossing narrative of the KGB program to win the Cold War through domination of the Third World.”Philadelphia Inquirer
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“Astonishing ... One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years.”Times (UK)
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“The long-awaited second tranche from the KGB archive ... co-authored by our leading authority on the secret machinations of the Evil Empire.”Sunday Times (UK)
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“Engaging .... Sheds new light on the hidden history of the Cold War.”Publishers Weekly
