The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

The Sword and the Shield is a groundbreaking book that reveals the KGB's most closely guarded secrets, providing an unparalleled look into the organization's covert operations in the United States and around the world.

This comprehensive archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a secret dissident offers a wealth of new information on the KGB's activities during the Cold War, including its attempts to discredit civil rights leaders in the 1960s and its use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., to monitor high-level U.S.

government communications.

With its unprecedented access to KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the secret history of the twentieth century.