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He is the author of more than 10 books, including The Kremlin Conspiracy, The Solitary Spy and Red October.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. He has scripted and directed historical reconstructions as a BBC TV producer. AUTHOR: Douglas Boyd was trained as a Russian-language snooper on Warsaw Pact air forces, based at a secret RAF SIGINT base in Berlin, and spent time as a Cold War POW in East Berlin. Author Douglas Boyd explores for the first time the relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood ? a family from hell. Perhaps the most menacing were the sleepers who settled in the West, married and had children while waiting to strike against their host countries many are still among us. Specially trained operatives undertook 'wet jobs', including assassination of anti-Soviet figures.

What was at first not so obvious was that these state terror organisations were also designed for military and commercial espionage in the West, to conceal the real case officers in Moscow. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings they were put down by brutality, bloodshed and Soviet tanks. KGB ? officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. Trained by his NKVD ? a predecessor of the. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, AssassinsĪfter the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies.
