This is a translated Soviet KGB training manual titled "Communicating With Agents." It covers how intelligence officers communicated with agents and other assets in the field during the Cold War, before digital communication.
The manual covers personal communication with agents, including choosing meeting locations, using counter-surveillance measures, and selecting and using dead letter boxes. It also covers non-personal channels such as short-range radio signaling and local print media used for covert messaging.
It also explains communication through intermediaries, including liaison officers, couriers and safe houses. Other topics are transfer points, clandestine postal addresses and clandestine telephone services.
- Title
- Top Secret KGB Training Manual: Communicating With Agents
- Category
- Books
- Subject
- Soviet espionage, covert communications and intelligence tradecraft
- Topics
- Meeting locations, counter-surveillance, dead letter boxes, short-range radio signaling, print media messaging, liaison officers, couriers, safe houses, transfer points, clandestine postal addresses,