"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 ...