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Author:

Hollingsworth, Mark, 1959- author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000110674867

Title:

Agents of influence : how the KGB subverted Western democracies / Mark Hollingsworth.

Publisher:

Oneworld,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Soviet Union.--Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History.
Federalʹnai︠a︡ sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii
Cold War.
Intelligence service--Soviet Union.
Intelligence service--Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Foreign relations--Russia (Federation)
Ukraine--History--Russian Invasion, 2022-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277) and index.

Summary:

There's no such thing as a former KGB man. Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world. More disturbingly, it never stopped. Putin is a KGB man through and through. Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation, kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russia's war with Ukraine. It seems frighteningly easy to destabilise Western democracy.

ISBN:

0861542169
9780861542161

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1371816000

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)