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Soviet Defectors
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Author : Riehle Kevin Riehle
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Soviet Defectors written by Riehle Kevin Riehle and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with History categories.
An analysis of the insider information and insights that over eighty Soviet intelligence officer defectors revealed during the first half of the Soviet periodIdentifies 88 Soviet intelligence officer defectors for the period 1917 to 1954, representing a variety of specializations; the most comprehensive list of Soviet intelligence officer defectors compiled to date. Shows the evolution of Soviet threat perceptions and the development of the "e;main enemy"e; concept in the Soviet national security system. Shows fluctuations in the Soviet recruitment and vetting of personnel for sensitive national security positions, corresponding with fluctuations in the stability of the Soviet government. Compiles for the first time corroborative primary sources in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state. This book identifies a group of those defectors from the Soviet elite - intelligence officers - and provides an aggregate analysis of their information to uncover Stalin's strategic priorities and concerns, thus to open a window into Stalin's impenetrable national security decision making. This book uses their information to define Soviet threat perceptions and national security anxieties during Stalin's time as Soviet leader.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Soren Earthwalker
language : en
Publisher: Publifye AS
Release Date : 2025-03-21
Soviet Defectors written by Soren Earthwalker and has been published by Publifye AS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-21 with History categories.
Soviet Defectors explores the gripping stories of Soviet citizens who risked everything to defect to the West, focusing on their motivations and the profound impact their actions had on the Cold War. Going beyond simple labels of traitor or opportunist, the book examines the complex blend of ideological disillusionment, fear, and personal ambition that drove these individuals to betray their country. One intriguing fact is how the information provided by defectors often led to significant shifts in espionage tactics and counterintelligence measures. The book analyzes key figures like Oleg Penkovsky, whose intelligence on Soviet missile capabilities was invaluable, and Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, whose defection served as a major propaganda victory. Another key aspect involves the Mitrokhin Archive, a treasure trove of KGB secrets smuggled to the West. By delving into these personal accounts, the book offers a nuanced understanding of the human cost of geopolitical conflict and the intelligence battles fought in the shadows. The approach taken in Soviet Defectors is to first establish the historical context, then to present case studies, and finally analyze the broader implications of these defections on Cold War intelligence. The book offers a fresh perspective by drawing on declassified documents and newly available archival information, creating a valuable resource for those interested in Cold War history, political science, and the intricate world of espionage.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Vladislav Krasnov
language : en
Publisher: Hoover Press
Release Date : 2018-04-01
Soviet Defectors written by Vladislav Krasnov and has been published by Hoover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-01 with History categories.
The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Krasnov reports, the free world has often played along with these Soviet efforts by treating defection primarily as a secretive matter best left to bureaucrats. As a result, defectors' human rights have sometimes been violated, and U.S. national security interests have been poorly served.
Federal Government S Handling Of Soviet And Communist Bloc Defectors
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Federal Government S Handling Of Soviet And Communist Bloc Defectors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Asylum, Right of categories.
Soviet And Nazi Defectors
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Author : Nigel West
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2024-12-30
Soviet And Nazi Defectors written by Nigel West and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-30 with History categories.
Analyzes nine wartime and postwar defections, highlighting motivations, risks, and counter-intelligence significance. A well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate themselves, but usually it is a denunciation, a tip, or a vague clue from a defector that will provide the vital information required to expose the source of a leak. Relying on recently-declassified intelligence files and interviews with defectors, their handlers, their families, and their victims, Nigel West has analyzed nine examples of wartime and postwar defections to shed new light on the phenomenon. Defectors are notoriously difficult to handle, and resettle, because of the range of genuine or invented motives that led them to take such drastic action. Some will provide a noble political motive, seeking to impress their host, while others may be driven by less worthy compulsions – perhaps greed, revenge, career disappointment, envy, anger, or nothing more complicated that a desire to start a life afresh with a different partner. Defectors are the stock-in-trade for all counter-intelligence specialists who seek the background and context of corridor gossip and water-cooler chat cannot be substituted by any amount of technical surveillance, overhead reconnaissance or hard to-interpret intercepted communications. This is the essence of Human Intelligence, and goes to the heart of loyalty, trust, betrayal and deception – the very DNA of espionage. These nine examples of switching sides all involve intelligence professionals who followed the example of Erich Vermehren. Because of his religious convictions, Vermehren felt compelled to desert the Abwehr in January 1944, even though this meant the arrest of his parents and siblings who were consigned to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. West traced Vermehren, then living under an alias in Switzerland, to hear his story first-hand. He then interviewed the British MI6 officer who had engineered the covert exfiltration from Istanbul of both the German and his wife. Sometimes a defection may be the result of a period of cultivation, as happened with Vladimir Petrov, who was gently persuaded over many months by his Polish dentist to abandon his clandestine role as rezident in Canberra for a chicken farm. The intermediary, Dr Michael Bialoguski, admitted to the author that right up to the moment of his defection, he and his Australian Security Intelligence organization colleagues were not entirely sure of Petrov’s true status. Once resettled, a defector’s life has daily challenges, as was explained by Yuri Rastvorov’s widow, herself a CIA counter-intelligence officer, who recalled the day she had to tell their two daughters that their father was not a Czech tennis coach, but an NKVD defector who had been based in Tokyo.
Stalin S Defectors
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Author : Mark Edele
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-23
Stalin S Defectors written by Mark Edele and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with History categories.
Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume investigates the extent, the context, the scenarios, the reasons, the aftermath, and the historiography of frontline defection. It shows that the most widespread sentiments animating attempts to cross the frontline was a wish to survive this war. Disgruntlement with Stalin's 'socialism' was also prevalent among those who chose to give up and hand themselves over to the enemy. While politics thus played a prominent role in pushing people to commit treason, few desired to fight on the side of the enemy. Hence, while the phenomenon of frontline defection tells us much about the lack of popularity of Stalin's regime, it does not prove that the majority of the population was ready for resistance, let alone collaboration. Both sides of a long-standing debate between those who equate all Soviet captives with defectors, and those who attempt to downplay the phenomenon, then, over-stress their argument. Instead, more recent research on the moods of both the occupied and the unoccupied Soviet population shows that the majority understood its own interest in opposition to both Hitler's and Stalin's regime. The findings of Mark Edele in this study support such an interpretation.
Undermining The Kremlin
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Author : Gregory Mitrovich
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2000
Undermining The Kremlin written by Gregory Mitrovich and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community, but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government."--BOOK JACKET.
Defection Of A Russian Seaman Testimony Of Vladislaw Stepanovich Tarasov
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Defection Of A Russian Seaman Testimony Of Vladislaw Stepanovich Tarasov written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Digital images categories.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Kevin Riehle
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Soviet Defectors written by Kevin Riehle and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with History categories.
When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.
Soviet Defectors
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Author : Vladislav Krasnov
language : en
Publisher: Hoover Press
Release Date : 2018-04-01
Soviet Defectors written by Vladislav Krasnov and has been published by Hoover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-01 with History categories.
The topic of defection is taboo in the USSR, and the Soviets, are anxious to silence, downplay, or distort every case of defection. Surprisingly, Vladislav Krasnov reports, the free world has often played along with these Soviet efforts by treating defection primarily as a secretive matter best left to bureaucrats. As a result, defectors' human rights have sometimes been violated, and U.S. national security interests have been poorly served.