12-19-2009, 12:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2009, 05:13 AM by deValcourt.)
EricFG Wrote:Phil, have you read 'The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB'? Looks like something up your alley.
Not yet. I'm still inching my way through Christopher Andrew's KGB: The Inside Story and I'm only about up to 1942 before SMERSH was created and on page 309 of the 700+ pages.
If you happen to run across the ISBN number, would you mind sending it to me? I hope to finish this one before the Spring and I want to pull up the book you are talking about to make sure I don't already have it.
I also have a DVD "documentary" on the KGB in North America that was made in the mid-1980s. It is so serious all I can do is laugh. There is even a point in the film when they start showing still shots of agents stationed at DC and New York (embassies and consulates) and they say their cover names then their real names and V. Putin is one of the known agents in New York. I'll have to find someone to make a copy and send it to you. It's pathetically funny.
Phillip
P.S. Speaking of films and SMERSH. In the early Ian Flemming books, James Bond's main organized nemesis was "SMERSH," but when the films were made, starting with Casino Royale the producers/screenplay writers changed SMERSH to "SPECTRE" (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion - Wikipedia) because they were afraid of agrivating already tense relations bewteen the USSR and the US and the West in general. the character "Le Chiffre" was a SMERSH agent given the task of killing Bond.
Phillip
