The Chekist Craft, Part VI: A Service Measures Its Success by the Other Side's Losses
The SVR's final volume covers détente through the Soviet collapse and its own 1991 rebirth — and reveals its own tell: an institution that judges its Cold War record by counting Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and the Walker family rather than by the state it was actually protecting.https://www.thesecuritynexus.net
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