Instructions from the centre: Top secret files on KGB foreign operations 1975 - 1985 - Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky

During the decade which culminated in the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, Oleg Gordievsky, at that time a Colonel in the KGB, regularly risked his life by copying the top secret documents emanating from 'The Centre' in Moscow. Now a selection of this highly classified material can be read here, presented with an informative commentary by Christopher Andrew based on joint analysis of the documents with Oleg Gordievsky. It provides a fascinating insight into the KGB's foreign operations between 1975 and '85, including its methods of recruiting agents, and into the thinking of its leadership at the beginning of the 1990s.