The Sword And The Shield; The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB
New York: Basic Books, 2003. Fifth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xxxv. [1], 700 pages. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Personal non-author inscription on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Christopher Maurice Andrew, FRHistS (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. Andrew is a former Chair of the History Faculty at Cambridge University, Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5), Honorary Air Commodore of 7006 (VR) Intelligence Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, Chairman of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, and former Visiting Professor at Harvard. Andrew served as co-editor of Intelligence and National Security, and a presenter of BBC radio and TV documentaries. His twelve previous books include a number of studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history. Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of his notes purporting to be written copies of KGB files. These became known as the Mitrokhin Archives. The intelligence files given by Mitrokhin to the MI6 exposed an unknown number of Soviet agents, including Melita Norwood. He was co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive. More