By Christopher Andrew
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When a German magazine reported in December 1996 that a former KGB officer had defected to Britain with ‘the names of hundreds of Russian spies’, the SVR spokeswoman, Tatyana Samolis, instantly ridiculed the story as ‘absolute nonsense’. ‘ “Hundreds of people”! ’ she declared. ’3 In reality, as both the SVR and the internal security and intelligence service, the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB), now realize, the Mitrokhin Archive includes details not just of hundreds but of thousands of Soviet agents and intelligence officers around the globe.
At the most dramatic moments of Soviet penetration of the Third World, from the establishment of the first Communist ‘bridgehead’ in the Western hemisphere (to use the KGB codename for Castro’s Cuba) to the final, disastrous defence of the Communist regime in Afghanistan, the Centre had greater influence than the Foreign Ministry. Andrei Gromyko, the long-serving Soviet Foreign Minister, is remembered by his almost equally long-serving ambassador in Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, as ‘a cautious man who opposed any serious confrontation with the United States’: .
Andrei Gromyko, the long-serving Soviet Foreign Minister, is remembered by his almost equally long-serving ambassador in Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin, as ‘a cautious man who opposed any serious confrontation with the United States’: . . The Third World was not his prime domain. He believed that events there could not decisively influence our fundamental relations with the United States; that turned out to be a factor which he definitely underestimated. More than that, our Foreign Ministry traditionally was not really involved with the leaders of the liberation movements in the Third World, who were dealt with through the International Department of the party, headed by Secretary Boris Ponomarev.