New KGB; Engine of Soviet power / William R. Corson and Robert T. Crowley

This stunning exposé is a fresh way of looking at the current operations and global strategies of the new KGB. The writing of the book has been something of a spy story in itself. The authors are veteran intel ligence specialists. Together they have more than seventy years of firsthand experience in attempt ing to counter, thwart, identify, and understand their contemporaries in the KGB. It is the first time that professional American intelligence agents have publicly analyzed sixty-eight years of Soviet intelligence • Case histories showing how KGB controllers living in America direct espionage activities against high-tech targets such as Silicon Valley. • How the KGB operates on Capitol Hill, and the KGB agents who do the work.

How the KGB planted agents in the unsuspecting ranks of freedom fighters in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba and infiltrated them into Western society. How Yuri Andropov managed to name Chernenko as his successor as an essential KGB deception to gain time and control.

• How Moscow's Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. wields its influence on American politi cal, educational, and media leaders. The first detailed analysis of Soviet "commercial cover" operations, such as Amtorg, and the dangerous consequences of trading with the USSR.

This book is an exciting tour of the dark side of the USSR and into the frightening realities of its intelligence organs. It will shock the innocent, stir the complacent, and warn the sophisticated as to the nature of the new KGB. background, and linked this background to current operations. The authors' devastating analysis is that the KGB has forsaken its traditional role as the "shield and sword of the party" to actively become master of the Soviet Communist party and the dominant force in the government of the USSR. Their argument pains takingly traces the changes in the Soviet hierar chy that were started by the late KGB chief Yuri Andropov and which ended recently with the death of Konstantin Chernenko and the immediate naming of Mikhail Gorbachev to take charge of the Soviet Union in what was the quickest suc cession in Soviet history. Other significant items discussed in the book

include:

The first documented history of Soviet operations from the Bolshevik Revolution up to the current times-against the United States

• Compelling new data and startling new facts about Soviet intelligence that illustrate the scope and direction of the KGB's assault on other West ern nations. The first coherent history of the Soviet of gans of intelligence and repression.