More Instructions from the Centre

During the decade that preceded Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. Unknown to the KGB, however, many of these highly classified documents were being secretly copied by Oleg Gordievsky, at that time not only a high-ranking KGB officer based in London but also a long-serving undercover agent for the British. The selected documents in this volume, translated and analysed by the editors with a commentary by Christopher Andrew to set them in context, offer a revealing insight into the attitudes, prejudices and fears of the KGB during what were to prove its declining years. Chapter 1 The United States: The ‘Main Adversary’; Chapter 2 Military Priorities; Chapter 3 Residency Priorities; Chapter 4 The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); Chapter 5 Albania; Chapter 6 The Vatican; Chapter 7 The Arctic, the Antarctic and the World’S Oceans; Chapter 8 Africa; Chapter 9 Asia; Chapter 10 The Middle East; Chapter 11 Zionism and Israel; Chapter 12 Ciphers and Counter-Intelligence; Chapter 13 The Threat from the ‘Main Adversary’;