08-18-2009, 12:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2009, 12:55 AM by deValcourt.)
Doug,
I have KGB: The Inside Story but I haven't cracked it yet. I still have books in boxes even though I moved into this home right after I bought it last November. I started reading Yevgenia Albats' The State Within a State which isn't so much a book as an extended version of a lenghty article she wrote for a Russian journal. It is appropriate that she uses Kalugin's own phrase as the title since she is rather bitter about the KGB (as it still exists, according to her). It's kind of twisted and not terribly focused, but then she was a journalist:rolleyes: (and so was I - so I can make that joke).
I'll have a go at the Andrews book next then. I really wish, like most of us, that there was a nice collection of authentic photos of KGB and ancestral organizations' actual people at work in uniform (when they were, of course).
Thanks again,
Phillip
P.S. I went to Radford University in Virginia for grad school. That's as far north as I got - until flying to Moscow that is, and didn't go to New York until I flew back the first time.
I have KGB: The Inside Story but I haven't cracked it yet. I still have books in boxes even though I moved into this home right after I bought it last November. I started reading Yevgenia Albats' The State Within a State which isn't so much a book as an extended version of a lenghty article she wrote for a Russian journal. It is appropriate that she uses Kalugin's own phrase as the title since she is rather bitter about the KGB (as it still exists, according to her). It's kind of twisted and not terribly focused, but then she was a journalist:rolleyes: (and so was I - so I can make that joke).
I'll have a go at the Andrews book next then. I really wish, like most of us, that there was a nice collection of authentic photos of KGB and ancestral organizations' actual people at work in uniform (when they were, of course).
Thanks again,
Phillip
P.S. I went to Radford University in Virginia for grad school. That's as far north as I got - until flying to Moscow that is, and didn't go to New York until I flew back the first time.
Phillip
