Espionage is a hot, fierce and quiet war.
But, from a media perspective, it's a dish best served cold.
In 1999, an exceptional book,
The Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB in Europe and the West
, was published in London.
Signed by the academic Christopher Andrew and a Soviet defector, Vassili Mitrokhine, who dedicated the work
"to those who wanted to tell the truth but did not succeed"
, it was based on information including the most recent dated from the early 1980s. Of the 996 pages of the work, twenty concerned France, a country where the KGB had
“treated more agents (…) at least fifty”
than anywhere else
“in Eastern Europe”. West”
, and this
“during much, probably most, of the Cold War”,
according to the authors.
Among his paid spies were several journalists, including Paul-Marie de La Gorce, who had written in our columns from 1963 to 1995 (he was an editorial writer there from 1977 to 1984), and a certain “Brok”
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