Interpreter Staff
KGB Training Manuals Revealed
November 1, 2018
Last year and earlier this year, Michael Weiss, The Interpreter’s founding editor, published a series of four articles ( here and here ) in the Daily Beast on hitherto secret KGB training manuals.
While some Western intelligence agencies or government specialists may have had some of the manuals in the past, they were not made available to the general public until now.
The still-classified manuals expose the devious methods of the Soviet Union’s secret police not only
to surveil but suborn their own citizens and foreigners in a vast project to extend the Kremlin’s power around the world. These internal documents from the 1970s and 1980s were used in an era before the Internet and mass electronic surveillance. Yet what is most intriguing about them is that these same methods are still used today — and now amplified with new technology.
More at: http://www.interpretermag.com/kgb-training-manuals-revealed/
Quite an extensive collection. The hyper-linked articles from the Daily Beast might be a start. For the record, I believe interpreter magazine is now connected to Radio Free Europe but they existed prior. One can look at some of these websites and notice, similar designs and the like. A good free source, with so many places starting to charge for reading.
