The Archivist Who Stole the KGB's Secrets
From The Secret Intelligence Files · 9:19
Show by Ngoc
For twelve years, a quiet KGB archivist copied his service's most secret files by hand, smuggled the notes out in his pockets, and hid them under the floorboards of his country house. When he finally defected in 1992, he brought six trunks of notes — and the FBI called it the most complete intelligence ever received from any source. This is the documented story of the Mitrokhin Archive.
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