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In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West has remained secret until the publication of his book. Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign intelligence archives of the KGB, which in 1972 he was made responsible for moving to a new HQ just outside Moscow. He was congratulated by the head of foreign intelligence, Vladimir Kryuchkov (later the ringleader of the 1992 Moscow coup), for his success in transferring the archives and his devoted 'service to the state security authorities.' Unknown to Kryuchkov, however, Mitrokhin - a secret dissident - spent over a decade noting and copying highly classified files which, at enormous personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and kept beneath his dacha floor. 'Few KGB officers have ever spent so much time reading, let alone noting, foreign intelligence files,' writes Christopher Andrew. 'Outside the Archives, only the most senior officers shared