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	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Vasili Mitrokhin
		The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
		Mitrokhin had access even to the holy of holies in the foreign intelligence archives - the files that revealed the real identities of the elite corps of KGB "illegals" living under deep cover abroad, disguised as foreign nationals.
		Mitrokhin was born in Yurasovo, in Ryazan province, south of Moscow.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1140264,00.html (1312 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Vasili Mitrokhin
		Vasili Mitrokhin, who died on January 23 aged 81, was the former KGB archivist whose defection to Britain in 1992 brought a treasure trove of Soviet secrets to the West.
		Mitrokhin's archive consisted of a huge volume of material culled from tens of thousands of top-secret KGB files, which he had laboriously copied down over 12 years and hidden in tins and milk crates underneath his dacha.
		The son of a decorator, Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin was born on March 3 1922 in Yurasovo, in the rural Rayazan province of Soviet Russia.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2004/02/02/db0202.xml (1366 words)

	Guardian \| Vasili Mitrokhin dies at 81 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist whose defection opened up thousands of the spy agency's files to the West, has died at 81, the British government said yesterday.
		Mitrokhin joined the Soviet secret service in 1948, but soon grew disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union.
		Mitrokhin's files formed the basis of the controversial 1999 book The Mitrokhin Archive, written in collaboration with a British academic, Christopher Andrew.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4847970-103610,00.html (146 words)

	Vasili Mitrokhin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mitrokhin sometimes dated the beginnings of his disillusionment to Khrushchev's famous speech to the Communist Party congress denouncing Stalin, though it seems he may have been harbouring doubts for some time before that.
		For years he had listened to broadcasts on the BBC and Voice of America, noting the gulf between their reports and party propaganda.
		Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books (1999), hardcover, ISBN 0465003109; trade paperback (September, 2000), ISBN 0465003125
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin (863 words)

	Vasili Mitrokhin, KGB archivist, author of The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive with Christoper Andrew
		Vasili Mitrokhin, KGB archivist, author of The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive with Christoper Andrew
		Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin was born in 1922 in Yurasovo in Ryazan oblast (province), the second of five children.
		Vasili Mitrokhin, former KGB archivist, was born on March 3, 1922.
	www.cicentre.com /Documents/DOC_Mitrokhin.htm (1860 words)

	Defector revealed books of secrets - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died aged 81, was the KGB archivist whose defection to Britain in 1992 brought a treasure trove of Soviet secrets to the West.
		Mitrokhin's archive consisted of material culled from tens of thousands of top-secret KGB files, which he had laboriously copied down over 12 years and hidden in tins and milk crates underneath his dacha.
		Mitrokhin continued his clandestine activities for 12 years until he retired in 1984, when his boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, congratulated him for his success in transferring the archives and his "irreproachable service to the state security authorities".
	smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/24/1077594820161.html?from=storyrhs&... (1242 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2004/01/30 :: KGB Archivist, Defector Vasili Mitrokhin, 81
		Vasili Mitrokhin, 81, the KGB archivist who for 12 years secretly made notes from the Russian spy agency files until he defected to Britain in 1992, died of pneumonia Jan. 23, the British government announced yesterday.
		Mitrokhin's handwritten notes were hidden in his shoes, buried in milk containers under the floorboards of his dacha or under his back garden and smuggled out of Russia by British agents in six trunks.
		Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin was born in 1922 in Yurasov in Ryazan oblast (province), the second of five children, according to an obituary in the Times.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2004/01/30/Obituaries01.shtml (901 words)

	HindustanTimes.com: Mitrokhin
		The world came to know of the astonishing tale of Vasili Mitrokhin in 1999 with the publication of his book dealing with the secret history and foreign operations of the KGB, the premier Soviet intelligence agency.
		Seven years before, Mitrokhin, then 71, had sneaked into Britain with the assistance of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), bringing with him a huge cache of notes that came to be called the Mitrokhin archive.
		Mitrokhin, a failed KGB field officer, was assigned to the archives of the First Chief Directorate, the foreign intelligence wing of the KGB, which housed the closed files on the KGB's operations and agents worldwide.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/mitrokhin (303 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin dies at 81 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist whose defection opened up thousands of the spy agency's files to the West, has died, the British government said Thursday.
		Mitrokhin was born in 1922 and joined the Soviet secret service in 1948 but soon grew disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union.
		Mitrokhin's six aluminum trunks full of KGB files formed the basis of the 1999 book "The Mitrokhin Archive," written in collaboration with British academic Christopher Andrew.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/01/29/kgb_archivist_vasili_mitrokhin_dies_at_81 (391 words)

	The Mitrokhin Mystery-Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasili Mitrokhin was born on March 3, 1922 in Yurasovo, in Central Russia.
		Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost 30 years in the foreign intelligence archive of the KGB where, at great risk to himself, he made notes of the contents of the highly secret files that passed through his hands.
		Andrew paints Mitrokhin as a secret dissident, sent home from a foreign posting with a fl mark on his record, who nevertheless was put in charge of transferring the entire files of the foreign intelligence section to its new headquarters.
	www.observerindia.com /analysis/A504.htm (2689 words)

	The Sword and the Shield
		Mitrokhin saw mounting evidence both in the classified in-house journal, KGB Sbornik, and in FCD files of Andropov's personal obsession with the destruction of dissent in all its forms and his insistence that the struggle for human rights was part of a wide-ranging imperialist plot to undermine the foundations of the Soviet state.
		Mitrokhin was safe and secure for the first time since he had begun assembling his secret archive eighteen years previously, but at the same time he felt a sense of bereavement at separation from a homeland he knew he would probably never see again.
		Vasili Mitrokhin has thus made it possible to extend what John Costello praised in 1993 as the "new precedent for openness and objectivity in the study of intelligence history" set by Kryuchkov and his SVR successors far beyond the limits any of them could have envisaged.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/a/andrew-sword.html (9604 words)

	Blog of Death: Vasili Mitrokhin
		Disillusioned with his life, Mitrokhin contacted the CIA for help in 1995, offering 25,000 classified documents as his ticket out of the Soviet Union.
		The copied KGB files formed the basis of the 1999 book, "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB," which was co-written by Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew.
		Mitrokhin, who spent 14 years living in Britain under a false name and with police protection, died on Jan. 23 from pneumonia.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000716.html (329 words)

	CI Centre \| Book Review by Paul Redmond of: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of ...
		Mitrokhin is not the greatest individual counterintelligence source of the Cold War.
		Mitrokhin’s data paints a picture of KGB operations and activities ranging from the brilliant and productive to the silly and the naïve, from the hardnosed and honest to the delusional and consciously dishonest; from brilliantly perceptive agent handling and recruiting to shocking myopia about the outside world.
		Mitrokhin’s data about KGB covert action operations, efforts to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States, whether merely discussed, planned or actually implemented, are stunning.
	www.cicentre.com /BK/BOOKS_Redmond_Mitrokhin.htm (1477 words)

	H-Net Review: David L. Ruffley on The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the ...
		As the story of Vasili Mitrokhin's dramatic defection from the chaos of post-Soviet Russia in 1992 became known, it aroused Western expectations of a bonanza of spectacular revelations about the KGB and its predecessors.
		Mitrokhin's courageous compilation of secret files from the KGB's First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence division) did indeed contain some original revelations, but in the main proved more valuable in filling in the details of cases that Western intelligence agencies had already known about or suspected for years.
		Vasili Mitrokhin copied by hand highly classified documents from the archives of the KGB's First Chief Directorate (Per'voe Glavnoe Upravlenie), the directorate responsible for foreign intelligence.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=223171020271417 (1631 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (Penguin Press History): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This huge book is the result of a collaboration between Vasili Mitrokhin, a former senior officer of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, and Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge University.
		Mitrokhin defected to the UK in 1992, bringing with him notes and classified files he had smuggled out of the Soviet foreign intelligence archives.
		Working from Vasili Mitrokhin's archive and his own unrivalled expertise in the history of intelligence, Christopher Andrew has created an extraordinary picture of a USSR committed to covert activity at home and abroad to maintain Communism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140284877 (1126 words)

	Amazon.de: The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB.
		Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives.
		In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1565113756 (1290 words)

	The Mitrokhin Revelations
		I have to thank Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin for returning me to the illicit pleasure of that genre of books, where the CIA and the KGB faced off in intricate tangos and where codenames like NEVEROVA or RADAR were employed in deadly earnest.
		Mitrokhin, who retained a taste for homemade cabbage soup and the habit of doing push-ups in the middle of meetings well into old age, died in January 2004.
		Most of Mitrokhin's information in Part One was accurate; there's little reason to speculate, as some have, that Part Two of the archives is either inaccurate or part of a darkly twisted plot by the CIA to discredit the shining legacy of two of India's most prominent political parties.
	in.rediff.com /getahead/2005/sep/23roy.htm (737 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Night Waves - 20 September 2005
		Vasili Mitrokhin, a senior archivist in the KGB, smuggled documents out of the KGB archive, which, when published, were described by the FBI as constituting 'the greatest single cache of intelligence ever received by the West'.
		The material smuggled out of the KGB's foreign intelligence archive by Vasili Mitrokhin led to the unmasking of Melita Norwood, an 87 year old great-grandmother from Bexleyheath as the longest serving Soviet spy in Britain.
		The Mitrokhin Archive II by Chris topher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin is published by Allen Lane.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/nightwaves/pip/390fb (381 words)

	The Mitrokhin mystery
		B Raman on the Mitrokhin Archive controversy, which alleges that several Indian leaders took bribes from the KGB.
		After his return from the Olympics, he was downgraded, removed from the operational division of the foreign intelligence directorate of the KGB, graded as not fit for operational tasks and posted to the Archives of the First Chief Directorate (dealing with foreign intelligence) of the agency, where all closed files were kept in safe custody.
		Mitrokhin, on the basis of his notes, allegedly named a large number of political leaders and others of the UK, France, Germany and other Western countries as working for the KGB.
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/sep/26raman.htm (2188 words)

	Hurrah for Mitrokhin!
		While the case of the Canadian spy Hugh Hambleton is well known, the Mitrokhin Archives points out that this Soviet agent was a committed Communist after the Second World War.
		Note: The Mitrokhin Archives often refer to people who have yet to be prosecuted only by their KGB code-names.
		In many respects, the Mitrokhin Archives is not all that shocking, but it does verify so many suspicions about what was really going on during the Cold War.
	www.mackenzieinstitute.com /1999/Intelligence_Mitrokhin.html (2041 words)

	Mitrokhin: More questions than answers
		Mitrokhin served in the operational division of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate of the KGB till 1956.
		It is claimed that some of what was contained in the notes brought by Mitrokhin had earlier independently come to the notice of MI-6 from other operations and from the debriefing of other defectors from the Soviet Union.
		The Mitrokhin notes and the two books based on it written by Andrew are part of the MI-6's psywar against Russia.
	www.rediff.com /rss/redirect.php?url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/28raman.htm (1457 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Special Report \| 1999 \| 09/99 \| Britain betrayed \| Idealist who sold out his homeland
		Now living in England under an assumed name in a secret location, Russian defector Vasili Mitrokhin made it a condition of his citizenship that the notes he laboriously copied from KGB archives be published as a warning to future generations.
		Mitrokhin even came across a plot to break Rudolf Nurevev's legs after the ballet dancer defected.
		Mitrokhin remained disillusioned with the homeland he left behind, and had little time for the current crop of politicians, dismissing Russian President Boris Yeltsin as an "old alcoholic".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/britain_betrayed/445866.stm (660 words)

	RUSSIAN THREAT PERCEPTIONS AND PLANS FOR SABOTAGE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES
		Mitrokhin took daily notes and transcripts from the KGB's most secret intelligence files; and he was able to smuggle those files out of Yasenevo and to conceal them in containers buried beneath his dacha.
		Mitrokhin didn't transcribe the detailed finding aids to any of the KGB arms caches in the United States, his notes make clear that these caches were an integral part of sabotage operations against U.S. targets.
		Mitrokhin's KGB pension certificate and an official KGB testimonial thanking him for his services in the archives signed by the head of the foreign intelligence, who by the way at that time was General Kryuchkov, later the leader of the 1991 abortive coup.
	www.fas.org /spp/starwars/congress/1999_h/has299010_0.htm (17119 words)

	Kingdom of God- Battle with Forces of Darkness - blogomonster.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mitrokhin had made his first visit to the embassy a month earlier, when he arrived pulling a battered case on wheels and wearing the same shabby clothes.
		As The Mitrokhin Archive II seeks to show, for a quarter of a century the KGB, unlike the CIA, believed that the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War.
		In 1992 the 70-year-old Vasili Mitrokhin, his family and six large containers of KGB documents that he had secretly copied over 12 years and hidden beneath his dacha were smuggled by British intelligence out of Russia.
	www.blogomonster.com /Rajiv101 (3521 words)

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