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A joke I found online about the KGB

 A man arrives at a hotel after a long train journey, exhausted. He comes into a communal room and sees three other guys who are drunk and talking loudly. They are cracking anti-government jokes and laughing at Khrushchev. The man is annoyed that he can’t sleep so he hatches a plan. He walks out into a corridor and asks a staff member to bring him a cup of tea. He then comes back into the room and starts talking to the noisy fellows:  “Comrades, you shouldn’t joke like that here. Every room is bugged, you know...”  “Nonsense! Who would listen to us?”  “Well, let me show you”  The man walks up to a socket and says into it:  “Comrade major, can I have a cup of tea please?”  Sure enough, the staff member soon enters with a cup of tea.  “See, told you.”  The three men are pale and quiet for the entire night, so the tired man finally gets some good sleep.  He wakes up the next morning alone. He walks downstairs and asks the receptionist about...

Introducing The Mitrokhin Archive

"The Sword and the Shield" is a book written by Christopher Andrew  with Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin  about the KGB . I am going to publish some important and complete informations from this book every time I finish reading a chapter. Introduction : 17 OCT 1995 : C. Andrew was informed by the MI6 that V. Mitrokhin has been exfiltrated from Russia in 1992 with his family and 6 cases of top secret materials. Mitrokhin is an archivist from the KGB. Mitrokhin noted every single document he had access to during 12 years. These notes are known as The Mitrokhin Archive. It was huge (for example, only three European states were absent : Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andorra, there were even important materials about San Marino!) and interesting : Andrews thinks that Mitrokhin had access to even the most highly classified documents of the KGB (with real names, code names and interesting details on sleeping agents and so). C. Andrew had already written a book about KGB based on the ...