Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 1v, 337, [3] pages. Wraps Illustrations. Charts. Footnotes. Appendices. Cover is soiled, creased and an ink notation on front and on the back page. A few ink marks in the text noted. These hearings were declassified for public release in December 1982. " Active measures" are covert activities carried out by the KGB within the Soviet Union, and by international Soviet fronts and foreign Communist Parties outside the Soviet Union. One of those testifying was Stanislav Levchenko, a former major in the KGB who defected to the United States in 1979. Active measures is political warfare conducted by the Soviet or Russian government since the 1920s. It includes offensive programs such as disinformation, propaganda, deception, sabotage, destabilization and espionage. The programs were based on foreign policy priorities of the Soviet Union. In 1974, according to KGB statistics, over 250 active measures were targeted against the CIA alone, leading to denunciations of Agency abuses, both real and (more frequently) imaginary, in media, parliamentary debates, demonstrations and speeches by leading politicians around the world. This hearing heard testimony from John MaMahon, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Edward J. O'Malley, Assistant Director for Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Stanislav Levchenko, former Major in the KGB. More