Mitrokhin secretly made his handwritten notes by copying archival documents in the period between 1972 and 1984, when he supervised the move of the archive of KGB's foreign intelligence department First Chief Directorate from the Lubyanka Building to their new headquarters at Yasenevo.

From 1972 to 1984, the archivist copied hundreds of thousands of files which revealed how the KGB approached its intelligence-gathering operations and handled its extensive networks of spies ...

In February 2025, a rumor circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited as an "asset" by Russian intelligence in the late 1980s and given the codename "Krasnov," following ...

Jul 7, 2014 · The documents include KGB information on secret Russian weapons caches, Russian spies, and KGB information on the activities of Pope John Paul II.

Jul 7, 2014 · KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ – will today open to the public for the first time.

KGB Archiver is a discontinued file archiver and data compression utility that employs the PAQ6 compression algorithm. [2] Written in Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. It has ten levels of …

The Chernobyl Files: Declassified Documents of the Ukrainian KGB. The collection contains reports ranging from 1971 to 1991 prepared for and by a variety of Soviet and Ukrainian government agencies, such as the KGB, documenting and detailing the most important developments in the wake of the disaster, but also internal reports and ...

From 1972 to 1984, Major Vasiliy Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB’s foreign intelligence archive – with unlimited access to hundreds of thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence gathering operations.

Jul 8, 2014 · Thousands of KGB files from the ‘Mitrokhin Archive’ are now available to the public. In 1992, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of secret documents from the KGB, the ...

Dec 3, 2021 · This documentary shows, 50 years after the end of the war, how the nearly 500 imprisoned generals fared in the Soviet Union, the archives of the KGB with their three million files on prisoners of war, and much more.