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Eastern Europe

Soviet Union

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Czechoslovakia

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Mitrokhin, Vasili

1922- 2004

Mitrokhin Archive

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North America

United States

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

1914- 1984

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Eastern Europe

Lithuania

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Pjescak

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Western Europe

West Germany

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Obzina, Jaromir

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Shelepin, Alexander

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Soviet Foreign Policy

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Nagy, Imre

1896- 1958

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1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

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United States-Soviet Relations

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

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May 19, 1983	Memorandum from S.N. Mukha to Comrade V.V. Shcherbitsky, 'On Apprehension of S.V. Kirichenko, who Established a Criminal Connection with the US Clandestine Services' Mukha provides Shcherbitsky with a report detailing the capture of Sergey Vladimirovic Kiirichenko, a Ukrainian conducting espionage operations on behalf of the US.
July 21, 1960	Report by Ustinov on the Alleged US Ability to Disrupt Soviet Missile Guidance Ustinov analyzes reports that American scientists have developed a method for disrupting the guidance systems on Soviet missiles and concludes that this is not possible.
June 16, 1960	Memorandum by the Chairman of the Committee for State Security on Disruption of Soviet Missiles Shelepin reports on intelligence claiming that US scientists have developed a method to disrupt the guidance of Soviet missiles during launch.
October 6, 1959	Report by the Director of CC CPSU Department of Military Industry on the American 'Discoverer' Satellites Report outlining the need to organize systematic observation of newly launched American "Discoverer" satellites to determine their orbit and radio frequencies.
September 26, 1959	Report by Chairman of the Committee for State Security on American "Discoverer" Satellites A report to the CC CPSU on six American "Discoverer" model satellites with speculation about the satellites' military or surveillance purposes.
1963	KGB Handbook, 'Ukrainian Bourgeois Nationalists' (excerpt) KGB handbook describing techniques for identifying, monitoring, and combating anti-Soviet nationalists movements in Ukraine.
June 1941	Report from the People’s Committee of Internal Affairs to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party, about Agent 'Volodya' (Imre Nagy) Sverdlov provides a brief overview of agent "Volodya" (Imre Nagy) and his work.
March 10, 1938	Report on Imre Nagy’s Arrest by the NKVD (Commissariat of Internal Affairs) Matusov and Altman report on Nagy's arrest on 4/5 March 1938 and subsequent release on 8 March, and describe some of his work.
September 4, 1930	Imre Nagy’s OGPU (Unified State Political Directorate) Enlistment Certificate signed by Imre Nagy upon enlistment in the OGPU secret police (later the NKVD).
September 25, 1986	Meeting Minutes of the Politburo of the CC CPSU, Regarding Persecution of Political Dissidents and Spies In this September 1986 excerpt, Gorbachev receives a report from KGB chief Chebrikov that he had requested on “what kinds of people are serving sentences for crimes, which Western propaganda calls political.” Obviously following Gorbachev’s lead, Chebrikov proposes to alleviate the prison sentences of two-thirds of the 240 persons he lists under this category; but, in response to a question from Gromyko, he notes two cases where the guilty parties had already received a sentence that could not be reduced—execution for espionage.