Tag: SOVIET UNION
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The Weekend Confidential: Bernd Pulch’s Paper Chase
Meet Bernd Pulch, the unlikely gatekeeper to the West’s leakiest Kremlin vault. For seventeen years, his no-budget blog has cataloged the world’s most sensitive Russian intelligence leaks—documents scattered across servers from San Francisco to Cambridge. In this tour de force, Pulch reveals how a 1992 KGB circular, a covert cyber drill report, and a 639-page…
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Books and Betrayal — How the KGB and Stasi Turned German Publishing Houses into Cold‑War Weapons
German publishing houses—East and West—became covert battlegrounds in the Cold War. Newly surfaced archives show how the Stasi and KGB infiltrated editorial boards, manipulated manuscripts, and used paper quotas, shell companies and planted “consultants” to steer what Germans read. From state‑owned presses in Leipzig to silent equity stakes in Frankfurt, the book trade became an…
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TOP-SECRET – Report by Vyshinsky to Molotov Concerning Trade and Economic Cooperation Between the Soviet Union and the United States, August 1941
Date: 08/01/1941 Source: Library of Congress Description: Report by Vyshinsky to Molotov concerning trade and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States, August 1941 To Comrade V. M. Molotov I present for your confirmation: 1. The draft resolution of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars [SNK SSSR] on extending the trade…
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