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LocationOakland
Call NoHISTORY MILITARY GENERAL
TitleThe spy in the archive : how one man tried to kill the KGB / Gordon Corera.
AuthorCorera, Gordon, author.
Barcode47660111116717
CollectionNF History
Summary"How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files. The work goes on for decades but remains so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. 'The Spy in the Archive' tells the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin - an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files - ended up changing the world. As the in-house archivist for the KGB, the secrets he was exposed to inside its walls turned him first into a dissident and then a spy, a traitor to his country but a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia, forces still at work in the country today." -- jacket flap.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9798897100262 (hardback)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 327.12092 23
Personal Name Corera, Gordon, author.
Title Statement The spy in the archive : how one man tried to kill the KGB / Gordon Corera.
Edition Statement First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2026.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice London : William Collins, 2026.
Physical Description 323 p. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; Hardcover 24 cm.
Content Type still image rdacontent.
Content Type text rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note Act one. The beast -- Act two. The weapon -- Act three. The mayor.
Summary, Etc. "How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files. The work goes on for decades but remains so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. 'The Spy in the Archive' tells the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin - an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files - ended up changing the world. As the in-house archivist for the KGB, the secrets he was exposed to inside its walls turned him first into a dissident and then a spy, a traitor to his country but a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia, forces still at work in the country today." -- jacket flap.
Subject-Personal Name Mitrokhin, Vasili, 1922-2004.
Subject Great Britain. MI6 History 20th century.
Subject Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti History 20th century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Spies Soviet Union.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Intelligence service Great Britain.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Intelligence service Soviet Union.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Espionage, Russian.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Espionage, British.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies. lcgft.