KGB Material Released By Cold War Project, Available Online 94
pha7boy writes "The Cold War International History Project just released the 'Vassiliev Notebooks.' The notebooks are an important new source of information on Soviet intelligence operations in the United States from 1930 to 1950. Though the KGB's archive remains closed, former KGB officer turned journalist Alexander Vassiliev was given the unique opportunity to spend two years poring over materials from the KGB archive taking detailed notes — including extended verbatim quotes — on some of the KGB's most sensitive files. Though Vassiliev's access was not unfettered, the 1,115 pages of densely handwritten notes that he was able to take shed new and important light on such critical individuals and topics as Alger Hiss, the Rosenberg case, and 'Enormous,' the massive Soviet effort to gather intelligence on the Anglo-American atomic bomb project. Alexander Vassiliev has donated his original copies of the handwritten notebooks to the Library of Congress with no restriction on access. They are available to researchers in the Manuscript Division."
And...? (Score:3, Insightful)
The executive summary please.
Re:Article about Vassiliev's credibility (Score:3, Insightful)
And we all know what a neutral, unbiased source The Nation is!
Great work of fiction - sorry but I call bullshit. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:How redacted is it? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:KGB Defector On Politcal Subversion (Score:4, Insightful)
This contradicts everything else that is known about KGB, however it is consistent with American propaganda that pretty much projected their own image on propaganda efforts of others -- real or imaginary.
Re:KGB Defector On Politcal Subversion (Score:3, Insightful)
Boy, isn't that scary? How superpowerful these mind control techniques are! Why anybody around you could be 'infected'! You never know if your co-worker is one of "them". How could we ever hope to fight back?
Fortuneately, there is hope. We can fight back. We need to fight these advanced brainwashing techniques with our own counter-programming. We need kids reading Adam Smith's _Wealth of Nations_. We need them saying the pledge at the beginning of each school day. We need them going to church and believing in God. We can fight back against those commie memes, with our own mind programming.
That, my friend, is a Phillip K. Dick science fiction plot. It's something straight out of Videodrome. Brainwashing is a complete fiction.