The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
Since 2004 Gordon Corera has been a Security Correspondent for BBC News where he covers terrorism, cyber security, the work of intelligence agencies and other national security issues. How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone.
Gordon’s new book, The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin, an introverted KGB archivist, exposed to secrets that turned him into a dissident and then a spy, became a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia, forces still at work in the country today.
