THE NEW KGB: ENGINE OF SOVIET POWER.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201310002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 7, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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47 aNElV Y( K TINES BOOK P.t:VItW
7 July 1985
In Short
NONFICTION
THE NEW KGR En doe of Sew Mt Pswrr. By William R.
Corson and Robert T. Crowley. (Morrow, $15.15.) De-
spite its title, this book is mainly a history of the Soviet
security and intelligence apparatus, rounded out by a
retelling of some of the organization's more notorious
exploits in Britain and the United States. The chapters
on the methods employed by Soviet agents in ferreting
out the West's industrial and military secrets are
particularly timely, what with recent arrests of a num-
ber of Americans accused of spying for Moscow. But the
book's-messaXe lies?elsewhere. The authors; Who clairrr
a combined 70 years' experience in military Intelli-
gence, contend that the K.G.B. has taken over control of
the Soviet Communist Party and "now operates the
U.S.S.R." They concede that this view puts them at
adds with many "traditional" American scholars who
see the party as still firmly in charge, and they provide
little real evidence in support of their own opinion. Their
conclusions are more a matter of interpreting Soviet
political dynamics as holding out little hope for any im-
provement in East-West relations. American ventures
in detente, trade and scientific exchange are dismissed
as delusions that have made it that much easier for the
K.G.B., beefed up before his death last year by the
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, to carry out his ukase -
massive filching of Western high technology to modern-
ize and expand the Soviet armed forces. Soviet profes-
sions of reasonableness are pretense, a smokescreen be-
hind which Russia under its new K.G.B. masters re-
verts to harshest Stalinism. There is little left to do, as
the authors would have it, but hold the Russians at
arm's length and proceed with President Reagan's
Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars" program.
It is unfortunate, in a book laying claim to special ex-
pertise, that the footnotes and bibliography should con-
tain so many errors in transliterations of Russian
names and words. -Anthony Austin
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/23: CIA-RDP90-00965R000201310002-6