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Spy in the Archive is Gordon Corera's narrative history of Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's in-house archivist who spent years copying its most secret files and then defected to the West with MI6's help. Corera, a historian and journalist, reconstructs both the long, quiet theft and the extraction operation, with flashbacks to Mitrokhin's life as a Soviet idealist raising a family. It suits readers of narrative nonfiction and Cold War espionage who want a documented account rather than a thriller invented for effect. Compared with the Mitrokhin volumes themselves, which are dense archival extracts, this is the readable story of the man and the operation behind them.
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Lowest price we've seen: $18.00 on Nov 3 at Strand Book Store. Tracked across 13 stores since Nov 3.
Spy in the Archive tells the story of Vasili Mitrokhin, an archivist for the KGB who became a traitor to the agency. Over decades, he stole the most prized Soviet-era archives and smuggled them to the West. His escape was aided by MI6.
The book is narrative nonfiction by historian and journalist Gordon Corera. It tells of the operation to extract Mitrokhin from Russia for the first time. Flashbacks show his earlier years as a KGB idealist and his growing realization that the communist state was imprisoning its own people.
It also describes what it was like to live in the Soviet Union and raise a family there. It follows one man's journey from the heart of the Soviet state to disillusion, betrayal and defection.
