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ЦРУ ПРОТИВ СССР

Bibliographic Description

ЦРУ против СССР / Яковлев Н. Н. – М. : Правда, 1983.

Author
Яковлев Н. Н.
Publisher
Правда
Year of publication
1983
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Even more than 40 years after it was written, the book "The CIA Against the USSR" is striking for its off-the-charts concentration of facts and documentary material. In writing it, the well-known Soviet historian and America specialist Professor Nikolai Yakovlev made active use of sources from the Lubyanka's Operational Library, and materials from the intelligence service and the Fifth Directorate (political counterintelligence) of the KGB. The permanent head of the latter, Filipp Bobkov, related: "In essence, that book was born out of joint work with Yakovlev. We selected material together, consulted, and sketched out theses. This book also predicted the situation connected with the collapse of the Soviet Union." The book was published many times in the USSR in Russian, in the languages of the union republics, and also in English, with a total print run of more than 3 million copies. Among the figures in the book are the American Central Intelligence Agency, the writer Solzhenitsyn, and academician Sakharov. Many pages are devoted to Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," which Bobkov and Yakovlev regarded not as literature but as a means of "psychological warfare."

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