KGB Today The Hidden Hand Author:John Barron The cold truth. More terrifying than a dozen thrillers. — From training school in Moscow to intelligence outposts in Tokyo, Paris and Washington, the author, a former U.S. naval intelligence officer, tracks clandestine KGB officers and field agents in action. — Gaining access to interrogations by U.S. and European intelligence, he penetrates... more » the inner circles of the KGB and provides intimate psychological profiles of its agents. He names names and describes clandestine operations in chilling detail: the acquiring of sensitive high-tech equipment and information, the "active measures" of disinformation and propaganda, the infiltration of the U.N. and western news organizations, and the preparation of "deep" agents for high-level positions in the U.S. government.
Scrupulously factual and terrifying real, this chilling study is as riveting as a thriller and is a worthy successor to the author's bestselling KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, acclaimed by CBS-TV News as "a masterpiece of investigative reporting."« less