Reader's Digest, 1971. Wraps. 11 p. More

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c1992. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 406, illus., map, pencil erasure on half-title. More

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, c1990. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 279, index, sticker residue at bottom of spine, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. More

New York: Delacorte Press, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 378, illus., sources, index, small stains to fore-edge, some wear and small chips to DJ edges, publisher's ephemera laid in. More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992. Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [3], 238 pages. Ink marks noted on several pages. Contains Footnotes, List of Illustrations [8 plates between pages 110 and 111; 16 documents between pages 5 and 16; and 4 diagrams between pages xi and xviii]. List of Abbreviations, KGB Codenames of Centre Officers and Residents, Note on the Documents, and Introduction: The Centre and Foreign Intelligence. Chapters cover The KGB's Global Priorities; Agent Recruitment; Illegals; Operation RYAN; The 'Main Adversary': The United States; The Main Ally of the 'Main Adversary': The United Kingdom; The European Community; The Socialist International; China; New Thinking? Also contains Appendix A: The KGB Files and Archives; Appendix B: Residency Records and Communications with the Centre; and Notes. Instructions from the Centre offers a highly classified insight not merely into KGB foreign operations at the dawn of the Gorbachev era, but also into the thinking of its top leadership at the beginning of the 1990s--and, in particular, into the mind of General V.A. Kryuchkov, KGB chairman, and one of the leaders of the abortive coup of August 1991. Christopher Maurice Andrew is an historian at the University of Cambridge with a special interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services. Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (born October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London, and was a double agent, providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985. He was exfiltrated from the USSR in 1985. More

New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxxiii, [3], 676, [4] p. Illustrations. Transliterstion. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 24 cm, 513, illus., index, DJ somewhat soiled, small tears at DJ spine. Foreword by Freeman Dyson. More

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 489, illus. More

New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1974. Second Printing. 462, illus., apps, chapter notes, bibliography, index, some discolor inside bds, some wear DJ edges, DJ in scratched plastic sleeve. More

New York: Stein and Day, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 255, chapter notes, index, bookplate of renowned intelligence analyst Ray S. Cline on front endpaper. More

New York: Stein and Day, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 255, chapter notes, index, bookplate, stamp on front endpaper, slight edge soiling. Introduction by Robert Conquest. More

Fort Meade, MD: National Security Agency, 1995? First? Edition. First? Printing. 12, wraps, illus., map. More

Fort Meade, MD: National Security Agency, 1995. 12, wraps, illus., notes. More