This book is an English translation of a classified KGB manual. It examines the network of local agents and the intelligence tradecraft needed to recruit American officials in the Middle East and North Africa.
The manual discusses how hard it is to recruit U.S. personnel. It states that American counter-intelligence agents "inspect and track employees of these institutions and their contacts with Soviets better, they take measures to expose Soviet intelligence agents, they organize stings, they conduct surveillance of agents and their connections."
The translation was redone in October 2026.
- Title
- KGB Playbook for Infiltrating the Middle East: English Translation
- Author
- Luis Ayala
- Language
- English translation of a KGB manual
- Subject
- KGB recruitment of American officials in the Middle East and North Africa