Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

Douglas Boyd

Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 February 2019
Pages
336
ISBN
9780750989367

Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins

Douglas Boyd

After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD
a predecessor of the KGB
officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania’s Securitate, Bulgaria’s KDS, Albania’s Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings they were put down by brutality, bloodshed and Soviet tanks. What was at first not so obvious was that these state terror organisations were also designed for military and commercial espionage in the West, to conceal the real case officers in Moscow. Specially trained operatives undertook ‘wet jobs’, including assassination of anti-Soviet figures. Perhaps the most menacing were the sleepers who settled in the West, married and had children while waiting to strike against their host countries; many are still among us. Author Douglas Boyd explores for the first time the relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood
a family from hell. AUTHOR: Douglas Boyd was trained as a Russian-language snooper on Warsaw Pact air forces, based at a secret RAF SIGINT base in Berlin, and spent time as a Cold War POW in East Berlin. He has scripted and directed historical reconstructions as a BBC TV producer. He is the author of more than 10 books, including The Kremlin Conspiracy, The Solitary Spy and Red October.
32 b/w illustrations

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