INSIDE THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE
A History of Soviet Security & Soviet Espionage,
1917-present
CHSTU387
"The
Chekist has two paths--promotion, or prison."
--Joseph Stalin, 1951
Instructor TA
Professor Jeffrey Burds Audrey
Allen
Office: 269 Holmes Hal allen.au@neu.edu
Telephone: (617) 373-2079
j.burds@neu.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays noon-2 pm
Course Description
. . . violence does not consist so
much in injuring and annihilating persons as
in interrupting their continuity, making them play roles in which they no
longer
recognize themselves, making them betray not only commitments but their
own substance."
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity
No theme has more powerfully captured the Cold War imagination than the virtual obsession with Soviet spies. Repressing their own citizens at home, the Bolsheviks craved world domination. They sent spies abroad to sabotage our progress, to infiltrate our governments, to penetrate into the hearts and souls of freedom-loving peoples everywhere. Or so the story went.
he collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991 and the opening up of the archives of Soviet and East European totalitarian regimes, has provided us with an unprecedented opportunity to glimpse those clandestine institutions from the inside, to test our beliefs and challenge our most fundamental views about Soviet police and society at home and abroad. Studying Soviet history through the prism of clandestine police and espionage organizations, we will survey the institutions, role, and significance of Soviet state power, 1917-1998. Using a vast array of primary and secondary sources, some of which have been translated from KGB archives specially for this course, supplemented by literature and film, we will trace the roles of the domestic and international branches of the Soviet secret police throughout its seventy-year history. Besides a general chronological survey, we will develop specific themes: the role of ideology in Soviet clandestine organizations; the use and limits of memoirs and other sources in Espionage history; the role of political terror and denunciations; informants' networks; recruitment of agents at home and abroad; the British spy scandals of the 1930s-1950s; Soviet intelligence successes and failures in World War II; the origins of the Cold War; the Atom Spy networks; the popular culture of spymania in the McCarthy era; the Cuban missile crisis; the Brezhnev era; the KGB and the Soviet collapse; spies and spying in the post-Soviet era.
All papers in the course should conform to the History Style Guide, and all written work should be checked closely for spelling and grammatical errors. Sloppy work will receive at least one full grade reduction. Pass/Fail is not an option in this course.
Course Requirements
10 percent of the final grade: Each student is expected to complete all of the assigned readings (averaging about 100 pages weekly) and to attend lectures and discussions regularly. Regular attendance is required. I will deduct 2 points in the class for each unexcused absence. Any student with five or more unexcused absences will not pass this course. Students with perfect attendance records for the semester will be awarded extra bonus points, [generally the equivalent of raising a B- to a B]. The number of bonus points or points deducted will depend in part on your score on a special quiz reflecting basic understanding of all five films.
45 percent of the final grade: Students will be required to take two written in-class exams. The first is set for Thursday, 15 October. The second is set for Monday, 7 December. The two examinations together will account for 45 percent of the final grade for the course.
45 percent of the final grade: Two 5-7 page papers, double-spaced, on questions to be distributed in class. All papers must conform to the History Style Guide. Midterm papers are due on Monday, 18 October. All final papers are due by Wednesday, 9 December, at noon in the box near 249 Meserve Hall, and via TURNITIN.
Students with a B+ or above on the midterm exam and paper may elect to choose an alternative final: to write a 10-12 page final paper on a theme to be agreed on with Prof. Burds, and take an oral final exam instead of the standard bluebook and take-home paper. Note that the maximum grade that can be earned through extra credit is an A-; I reserve an "A" grade for students who truly mastery the materials in this course.
For bibliographies and extra-credit projects, see the Resource Page.
A Statement on Academic
Honesty
All written work in this course
must be the student's own original work. Plagiarism--"the unauthorized use
or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the
representation of them as one's own original work"--is a serious
violation. Please note that the same shortcuts that make plagiarism so easy in
our day also facilitate the instructor's verification of each student's work. In
this course, all student work is checked closely for plagiarism.
Northeastern University relies on Turnitin technology: "Every paper
submitted is returned in the form of a customized Originality Report. Results
are based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current
and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously
submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and
periodicals." The point? If you misuse materials and submit other people's
work as your own, you will be caught. Any student caught plagiarizing will
automatically FAIL this course, and you will be formally charged for
violation of university guidelines on academic honesty.
Northeastern University's Official Policy on Academic Honesty & Integrity
Books
The following titles (marked with an asterisk) have been ordered at the University Book Store:
David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).
David C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents (Lyon’s Press, 2003).
Jerrold L. Schechter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War (Washington: Brassey's, 1992). [out of print; a scan appears below]
Robert W. Stephan, Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941-1945 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
Pavel Sudoplatov, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1994-1995). Revised Edition. [out of print; a scan appears below
Most readings in this course are available for download from
this
Week 1 Introduction: Inside A 'Wilderness of Mirrors'
Wednesday, 9 September. Introduction to
the History of Soviet Espionage. Themes.
Discussion: Espionage
and History
HANDOUT:
Lyrics of "The Chekists’ Song" (1937) [Listen
to MP3]
HANDOUT: The
Soviet/Russian Security Police, 1917-1996
Thursday,
10 September. Antecedents.
From the Third Department to the Tsarist Okhrana
Powerpoint: Antecedents
Readings
Andrew & Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story, pp. 1-64.
Other Resources
See the
Jonathan W. Daly,
Autocracy Under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905 (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 1998). Forthcoming in November 1998.
Jonathan W. Daly, The
Watchful State: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1906-1917
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004).
Frederic
S. Zuckerman, The Tsarist Secret Police in Russian Society, 1880-1917
(New York: NYU Press, 1996).
Week 2 Against Foreign Interventionists in an Era of
Capitalist Encirclement
Monday, 14 September. The Origins of
the Soviet Secret Police. Red Terror and
the Cheka
Powerpoint: Regicide in the
Russian Revolution
CASEBOOK 1: Introduction to Soviet International Operations,
1917-
1922
HANDOUT 1-2b:
Regicide in the Russian Revolution: The Murder of the Romanov Family
[16 July 1918] [Discussion]
HANDOUT
Lenin's War against the Russian Orthodox Church [Discussion]
Readings
John W. Long, “The Lockhart
Plot in Russia, 1918,” Europe-Asia Studies Volume 47, Number 7
(November 1995): 1225-1235; and Andrew Cook, Ace of Spies: The True Story of
Sidney Reilly (Glousteshire: Tempus Books, 2002), pp. 168-170.
Andrew &
Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside Story, pp. 65-106.
Recommended
George Leggett, The Cheka:
Lenin's Political Police: the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for
Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, December 1917 to February 1922
(New York: Oxford, 1981).
Viktor Bortnevskii,
White Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence during the Russian Civil War
No. 1108 in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies
(University of Pittsburgh, 1995).
Feliks
Dzerzxhinskii, Founder of the Cheka
David S. Fogelsong,
America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian
Civil War, 1917-1920 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1995).
A. J. Plotke, Imperial
Spies Invade Russia: the British Intelligence Interventions, 1918 (Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1993).
Nigel West and Oleg
Tsarev, The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB
Archives (London: HarperCollins, 1998).
Wednesday, 16 September. Origins of the Soviet Secret Police
Thursday, 17 September. No class meeting.
Week 3 'The Enemies Within': Stalin and the Terror
Monday, 21 September. Soviet Espionage
in the 1920s. Soviet Industrial Espionage
CASEBOOK 2: Sidney
Reilly, Myth & Reality
Recommended [Not
required]
Stuart Finkel, "An
Intensification of Vigilance: Recent Perspectives on the Institutional
History of the Soviet Security Apparatus in the 1920s," Kritika
Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2004): 299-320.
Peter Holquist,
"'Information
is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work': Bolshevik Surveillance in Its
Pan-European Context," Journal of Modern History (September 1997):
415-450.
Vladlen Izmozik,
"Voice
from the Twenties: Private Correspondence Intercepted by the OGPU," The
Russian Review 55 (1996): 287-308.
Harvey Klehr, et.
al. "Clandestine Habits: The 1920s and the Early 1930s" in The
Secret World of American Communism (New Haven: Yale University Press,
1995), pp. 20-30, 40-41.
Wednesday, 23 September. Totalitarianism and Mass Mobilization
Thursday, 24 September. A Popular
Culture of Denunciation?
Readings
Gábor Rittersporn, "The Omnipresent
Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the
1930s," in Stalinism and Its Aftermath: Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin
(M.E. Sharpe, 1992), pp. 101-120.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
and Robert Gellately, "Introduction
to the Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History," The
Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1996): 747-767.
Sheila Fitzpatrick,
"Signals
from Below: Soviet Letters of Denunciation of the 1930s," The
Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1996): 831-866.
Read Timothy Garton
Ash's critical review of ACCUSATORY PRACTICES
[London Review of Books, 19 March 1998, pp. 18-20]
Documents of the
Stalin Terror
From the
Prisoner's Perspective: From the KGB
File of Italian Communist Edmondo Peluzo: Fragments from His Unsuccessful
Petition for Release (from the KGB Archive, Moscow).
Resumé of a
Stalinist Policeman: Soviet Secret
Police Personnel Report on Service to the International Section of the
Communist Party in the 1930s (October 13, 1939), former Central Archive of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow.
CASEBOOK 3: Soviet
Secret Police & Stalin's Internal Enemies
Week 4 The Philby Conspiracy & the Cambridge Five
Monday,
28 September. Verbovka: Soviet Recruitment Strategies
Powerpoint: The Cambridge
Five
Recommended
Aleksandr Orlov, Handbook of
Intelligence and Guerilla Warfare (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1963).
John Costello and
Oleg Tsarev, Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master
Spy (Crown Publishers, 1993). Part 1
Part 2
Yuri Druzhnikov, Informer
001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov (New Brunswick: Transaction Pubs.,
1997).
Catriona Kelly, Comrade
Pavlik, The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (London: Granta, 2005).
MONDAY EVENING
Wednesday,
30 September. Stalin's
International Security Networks
Powerpoint: The Purge of
International Cadres
Handout: Arrests for
Espionage in the Soviet Union
Handout: The Purge in
the NKVD, 1933-1939
Readings
Andrew & Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside
Story, pp. 107-232.
CASEBOOK 4a: Cambridge
Spies, Fact & Fiction
CASEBOOK 4b: Aleksandr
Orlov's Letter to Ezhov
Jeffrey Burds, “The
Soviet War against ‘Fifth Columnists:’ The Case of Chechnya, 1942-1944,”
forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 42, Number 2
(April 2007).
Recommended
Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files:
The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby (Boston: Little, Brown and Co.,
1994). Part
1 Part 2
Thursday,
1 October. Soviet
Interrogation
Powerpoint: Stalinist
Interrogation Process
Handout: Stalinist
Interrogation Process
Week 5 Operation Barbarossa
Monday, 5
October. Soviet
Intelligence on the Eve of Operation Barbarossa
Powerpoint: 1939-1941
Handout: Stalin’s
Espionage Networks on the Eve of World War II
Handout: Signals from
Moscow (July 1940)
Readings
Andrew & Gordievsky, KGB: The Inside
Story, pp. 233-340.
Bernd Wegner,
"The
Tottering Giant: German Perceptions of Soviet Military and Economic
Strength in Preparation for 'Operation Blau' (1942)," in Christopher
Andrew and Jeremy Noakes, eds. Intelligence and International Relations,
1900-1945 (Exeter Studies in History No. 15) (University of Exeter, 1987),
pp. 293-312.
Pavel Sudoplatov, Special Tasks:
The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster (Boston: Little,
Brown, & Co., 1994-1995). Revised Edition, pp. 126-171.
For further reading [optional]
Perry Biddiscombe, Perry Biddiscombe, "Unternehmen
Zeppelin: The Deployment of SS Saboteurs and Spies in the Soviet Union,
1942-1945," Europe-Asia Studies Volume 52, Number 6 (2000):
1115-1142.
Perry Biddiscombe, "The problem
with glass houses The Soviet recruitment and deployment of SS men as spies and
saboteurs," Intelligence and National Security (London) Vol.
15, No. 3 (2000): 131-145.
Kurt DeWitt, The
Role of the Partisans in Soviet Intelligence (Alabama: Maxwell Air Force
Base, 1954).
John Erickson,
"Threat Identification and Strategic Appraisal by the Soviet Union,
1930-1941," in Ernest R. May, ed. Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence
Assessments Before the Two World Wars (Princeton, 1984), pp. 375-421.
David M. Glantz, The
Role of Intelligence in Soviet Military Strategy in World War II (Novato,
CA: Presidio, 1990).
David M. Glantz, Soviet
Military Intelligence in War (London, 1990).
Leonid D.
Grenkevich, Soviet Partisan Movements: A Critical Historiographical Analysis
(London: Frank Cass, 1999).
David Kahn, ["MAX:
Germany's Greatest Spy in the East,"] Hitler's Spies: German
Military Intelligence in World War II (New York; Collier Books, 1978), pp.
312-317, 367-369.
Bradley F. Smith, Sharing
Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996).
Colonel I. G.
Starinov, Over the Abyss: My Life in Soviet Special Operations (New
York: Ivy Books [Ballantine Books], 1995).
Bruce W. Menning,
ed. At
the Threshold of War: The Soviet High Command in 1941 in Russian
Studies in History: A Journal of Translations Volume 36, Number 3 (Winter
1997-98), pp. 2-93.
Barton Whaley, Codeword
Barbarossa (Harvard, 1973), Ch. 8: "Soviet Views," pp. 190-219.
Related
Materials
Photo & Text
of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [23 August 1939]
Secret
Protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [23 August 1939]
Wednesday, 7 October. Popular Reprisals against the NKVD: The People’s War against the Jews
Thursday, 8 October. Soviet Espionage
in World War II
Powerpoint: World War
Two—Part One
Casebook 5. Documents
from Soviet Espionage Operations in World War II
Week 6 Midterm Examination
Monday, 12 October. Columbus Day. No Class
Meeting
Wednesday, 14 October. Razvedka: The Role of Intelligence in the Soviet
Victory
HANDOUT: Logistics
& Partisan Warfare
Powerpoint: World War
Two—Part Two
READ: Robert W. Stephan, Stalin's
Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence against the Nazis, 1941-1945,
entire. [17 megs, will take a few
minutes to download]
Thursday, 15 October. Midterm Examination.
Burds Tips for
Exams and Papers
Midterm
Paper Question Midterm Paper due on Monday, 19 October.
Week 7 Soviet Security in Eastern Europe after the War
Monday, 19 October. Espionage in
Modern History
Take-home Papers
due!
John Gaddis, "Intelligence,
Espionage and Cold War Origins," Diplomatic History, 13, no. 2
(Spring 1989), pp. 191-212.
CASEBOOK 6: The
Origins of the Cold War in Soviet
Handout: Soviet Struggle
against Criminal Banditry
Powerpoint: The "Great Fear"
Handout: Deportations
of "Enemy Nationalities"
Recommended [Not
Required]
Andrew & Gordievsky, KGB: The
Inside Story, pp. 341-366.
Kevin
C. Ruffner, “Cold
War Allies: The Origins of the CIA’s Relationship with Ukrainian Nationalists,”
Fifty Years of the CIA (Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence Agency,
1998): 19-43. [Declassified in 2004]
MONDAY EVENING
Wednesday,
21 October. The
Soviet Union vs. OPERATION ROLLBACK
Powerpoint: Blowback,
Ratlines, Operation Rollback
Readings
Jeffrey Burds, "AGENTURA: Soviet
Informants' Networks & the Ukrainian Rebel Underground in Galicia,
1944-1948," East European Politics and Societies Volume 11, Number
1 (Winter 1997): 89-130.
Christopher
Simpson, Blowback:
America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (New
York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), pp. 3-11, 138-175, 264-290.
Photo: Soviet MVD
Special Tasks Unit near
Related Information
The Origins of Containment: George Kennan's
"Long Telegram" (Moscow-to-Washington) (February 22, 1946)
"The
Sinews of Peace": Audio and Transcript of Churchill's Speech at
The Novikov
Telegram: Soviet Ambassador in
Andrei Zhdanov's
"Report on the International Situation" (September 1947)
NSC-68 -- The
Foundations of American Cold War Policy
Compendium of Documents
& Readings on the History of the Cold War
Thursday, 22 October. No class meeting
Week 8 Cold War Culture
Monday, 26 October. Soviet
Secret Police and Counter-Insurgency Policy in the Western Borderlands
Powerpoint: Origins of the
Cold War in Soviet West Ukraine
SEE FILMS: The Lives
of Others (2006)
Wednesday, 28 October. Case Study of
Soviet Sister Services: The East German Stasi
Powerpoint: Soviet Sister
Services
HANDOUT:
"Secret Voices from the Past:
September 20,
1992, p. 35.
Yuri
Totrov, "Western
Intelligence Operations in Eastern Europe, 1945-1954," The Journal
of Intelligence History Volume 5, Number 1 (Summer 2005): 71-80.
Markus
Wolf, "Spying
for Love," Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's
Greatest Spymaster (New York: Random House, 1997), pp. 123-150.
Recommended [Not
Required]
Andrew & Gordievsky, KGB: The
Inside Story, pp. 422-476.
Marek Jan
Chodakiewicz, "The
Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret
Police in
Timothy Garton Ash,
The File: A Personal History (New York: Random House, 1997).
Gary Bruce, "The Prelude
to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany: Stasi Operations and Threat
Perceptions, 1945-1953" Journal of Cold War Studies Volume 5,
Number 2 (Spring 2003): 3-31.
Robert
Gellately, "Denunciations
in Twentieth-Century Germany: Aspects of Self-Policing in the Third Reich and
the German Democratic Republic," The Journal of Modern
History, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Dec., 1996): 931-967.
Thursday, 29 October. Introduction to Atomic Spies
Week 9 The Soviet Bomb and Soviet Nuclear Espionage
Monday, 2 November. The Red Scare
Wednesday, 4 November. Venona
Powerpoint: Venona
Handout:
Venona Materials
Thursday, 5 November.
Week 10 Nuclear Spies
Monday, 9 November The Soviet Nuclear Program
& Atomic Spies
Powerpoint: Soviet Nuclear Program
Readings
David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The
Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1994), pp. 72-115, 172-319.
Pavel Sudoplatov, Special Tasks:
The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness -- A Soviet Spymaster (Boston: Little,
Brown, & Co., 1994-1995). Revised Edition, pp. 172-220. Review documents on
pp. 436-475.
Related Sites
National
Security Agency -- contains links to two key collections: the VENONA
archive of captured Soviets coded communications; and documents on the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
National Security Archive
Documents
See film:: The
Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Wednesday, 11 November. Veterans’ Day. No class
meeting
Thursday, 12 November. Red Defectors:
Soviet Defectors since the Second World War
Discussion: CASEBOOK 7: Soviet
Spies in
Powerpoint: Red Defectors,
Soviet Assassination
Recommended
Vladislav Krasnov, Soviet
Defectors: The KGB Wanted List (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985).
Testimony of
Alexander Orlov, Hearing Before the
Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and
Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States
Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress. September 28, 1955. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1962).
The Kremlin's
Espionage and Terror Organizations; testimony of Petr. S. Deriabin, former
officer of the USSR's Committee of State Security (KGB). Hearing Before the Committee of Un-American
Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, First session.
Released March 17, 1959.
Murder
International, Inc.: Murder and Kidnapping as an Instrument of Soviet Policy, Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the
Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of
the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress.
First Session. March 26, 1965. (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1965).
Harry Truman, The
Truman Presidential Papers, Volume 7 The Ideological Foundations of the
Cold War -- the "Long Telegram," the Foreign Affairs X
Article, the Clifford Report, and
Week 11 The Cuban Missile Crisis
Monday, 16 November. "Murder
International" -- Soviet Assassination
Wednesday, 18 November. Context, Course
& Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Powerpoint: Cuban Missile
Crisis
Jerrold L. Schechter and Peter S. Deriabin, The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War, pp. 271-352.
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “Soviet Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Intelligence and National Security Volume 13, Number 3 (Winter 1998): 64-87.
Documents
Summary of revelations: "Soviet Surprise in '62: US Didn't Know About 100 Warheads in Cuba" Chronology, Transcript & Audio of JFK's Meetings During the Cuban Missile Crisis, 18-29 October 1962
Possibly
useful: “Soviet
Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” in Christopher Andrew and Vasili
Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The
Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic
Books, 1999), pp. 180-184.
Related
Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh, eds. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A National Security Archives Documents Reader (New York: The New Press, 1992).
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Kennedy and Castro, 1958-1964 (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1998).
Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovskiy Papers (New York: Doubleday, 1965).
Check out the National Security Agency's Cuban Missile Crisis Documents
Russian Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis [English translation from the Cold War International History Project]
Compendium of Documents & Readings on the U.S. Response in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thursday, 19 November.
The JFK
Tapes: Inside the Cuban Missile Crisis
(327 megs—high speed only). Lecture: Oswald
in
Week 12 Nosenko/Golitsyn
Monday, 23 November. See FILM: Yuri Nosenko,
KGB
Wednesday, 25 November. Thanksgiving recess, NO
CLASS
Thursday, 26 November. Thanksgiving recess, NO
CLASS
Week 13 The
End of the Cold War
Monday, 30 November. Nosenko Affair
Powerpoint: Nosenko Affair
David
C. Martin, Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception and the Secrets that Destroyed
Two of the Cold War’s Most Important Agents (Lyon’s Press, 2003), entire.
Optional
Listen
to an interview with Tenant Bagley regarding Nosenko
as a “False defector” (30 minutes)
Listen
to podcast of FBI (David Major), KGB (Oleg Kalunin), and
attacks against the “false
defector” thesis (17 minutes)
Listen
to Nosenko’s 1998 talk to the CIA
(more than an hour)
More about Nosenko
[from his
Recommended
"The Great Molehunt," in Jeffrey T. Richelson, A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 286-292.
Cleveland
Cram, "Spy
Stories: Of Moles and Mole Hunters," in Studies in Intelligence
(The
Gordon Brook-Shephard, The Storm Birds. Soviet Post-War Defectors (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988).
Selections from
Norman Mailer, Oswald's Tale:
An American Mystery (New York, Ballantine Books, 1995), pp. 69-79, 221-233.
Tennent H. Bagley, Spy
Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games (New Haven & London: Yale
University Press, 2007).
Wednesday,
2 December. Warriors of
Disinformation; the Main Enemy, Technology Espionage
Readings
"Brilliant Pebbles,
Ethnic Guns, and Baby Parts," in Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of
Disinformation: American Propaganda, Soviet Lies, and the Winning of the Cold
War (An Insider's Account) (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995), pp. 92-125.
CASEBOOK 8: The
Farewell Dossier
Thursday,
3 December. The End of the KGB
FILM QUIZ
Powerpoint: The End of the
KGB
HANDOUT: Aleksandr
Kabakov, "Landscapes on Walls, " Moscow News Number 31
(1990)
HANDOUT: Resurgent Russia
Recommended
Christopher Andrew and Oleg
Gordievsky, Comrade Kryuchkov's Instructions: Top Secret Files on KGB
Foreign Operations, 1975-1985 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993).
Milt Bearden and James
Risen, The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the
Stephen Koch, Double
Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West
(New York: The Free Press, 1994).
Alexander Kouzminov, Biological
Espionage: Special Operations of the Soviet and Russian Foreign Intelligence
Services in the West (London: Greenhill Books, 2005).
Thomas C. Reed, At the
Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War (New York: Random House, 2004).
Optional
CASEBOOK 9: Misinformation,
Disinformation, or Incompetence? Evaluating C.I.A. Assessments of the Soviet
Economy
Week 14
Monday, 7 December. Second Bluebook Exam
Wednesday, 9 December. Second Paper Due
Second Papers due by noon on
Wednesday, 9 December.
Final
paper question
Removing the Dzerzhinskii statue from in
front
of Moscow's KGB Headquarters [August 1991]
There is no final exam in this
class.