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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.
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.
November 5, 1968	Report Relayed by Andropov to the CPSU Central Committee, 'Students and the Events in Czechoslovakia' KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov presents a secret, 33-page report to the CPSU Central Committee about the mood of Soviet college students. The report had been completed sometime before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and had been circulating within the KGB. It is not clear precisely who drafted the report, but Andropov’s cover memorandum and the report itself indicate that the author was a college student in Odessa who had recently finished his degree.
June 7, 1960	Note from KGB Chairman A. Shelepin to Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Regarding Plan to Discredit CIA Chief Dulles Shelepin sets out a plan to discredit CIA chief Allen Dulles.
December 11, 1981	Cooperative agreement between the state security organs of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union The parties agree to work together in protecting their soldiers from ideological diversion by anti-socialist agents and to continue exchanging information gathered by military counter-intelligence.
April 29, 1971	Information #310 KGB on PGU KGB View on a Proposal of a Warsaw Pact Intelligence Services Meeting
June 2007	The Case of Hmelyova: "The Witch." Folder 37. The Chekist Anthology In this entry, Mitrokhin relates the KGB details surrounding “The Witch”—Aida Moiseeva Hmelyova (b. 1936), a native of the Kokchetavskii region in Russia. Mitrokhin describes how Hmelyova was investigated by Moscow’s Fifth Directorate of the KGB which shadowed her throughout 1969.
June 2007	The Richard Zorge Case. Folder 59. The Chekist Anthology In this entry, Mitrokhin recounts how during the 1960s the leadership of the KGB had shown its Dzerzhinsky Central Club agents a 2-part French movie entitled “Who Are You, Doctor Zorge?” A Soviet spy, Zorge aroused much interest within the ranks of the KGB. Drawing upon KGB files, Mitrokhin states how Zakharov, the Deputy Director of the KGB, consequently issued an order to prepare a report on Zorge.
June 2007	The Kardinal and Mavr Case. Folder 94. The Chekist Anthology. In this entry, Mitrokhin draws upon KGB files to describe “Kardinal” (formerly “Lord”)-Lothar Schwartz (b. 1928), a member of the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany, and a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).