The Kgb's Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko

by Volodarsky, Boris

• ISBN13: 9780760337530
• ISBN10: 0760337535
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl

Summary

Of great interest to both the general reader and espionage, intelligence, and counterintelligence experts, this book presents many historical cases for the first time and provides detailed, well-documented information on key Soviet and now Russian operations.

Author Biography

Boris Volodarsky is a former captain of the GRU Spetsnaz and currently an independent intelligence analyst, a member of the World Association of International Studies (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) and a co-editor of the international Personal Files intelligence history magazine. Mr. Volodarsky is the author of Nikolai Khokhlov: Self-Esteem with a Halo (Borwall Verlag, 2005), as well as a number of articles on intelligence topics published, primarily, in The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Orlov File: The Greatest KGB Deception of All Time (forthcoming 2008). Mr. Volodarsky is currently working on his PhD on the Soviet intelligence history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 9
Prologue	p. 11
The Funeral	p. 13
London, September 1978	p. 23
The KGB's Poison Factory	p. 32
Those were the days	p. 49
Operation Vladimir, Part I	p. 62
the Ukrainian Patient, Kiev, September 2004	p. 88
the victim, Vienna, May 1962	p. 117
the triple agent, Vienna, December 1975	p. 123
Operation Vladimir, Part II	p. 137
the illegal, Germany, 1954-7	p. 164
the assassin, Germany, 1957-9	p. 182
Operation Vladimir, Part III	p. 189
Dead Souls: From Stalin to Putin	p. 224
Epilogue	p. 254
Notes	p. 257
Appendix: Selected Soviet and Russian operations abroad: from Lenin to Litvinenko and beyond	p. 269
Select Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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