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Mitrokhin, Vasili

1922- 2004

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1914- 1984

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June 17, 1959	Information on French Intelligence Activity Against Bulgaria The memo focuses on the operations of the French intelligence services in Bulgaria during the late 1950s.
1961	Intelligence Report on Counterintelligence Interactions with Great Britain and Israel A report on the progress of agent recruitment.
October 13, 1961	Report from Gen. B. Dumkov on Completion of Operation "Pine-tree"
December 7, 1968	Plan for Countering Military Attachés of Capitalist Countries in Sofia Proposed measures for disrupting the alleged intelligence cooperation among Western military attachés in Sofia.
1970	Review from Gen. Grigor Grigorov on Subversive Activities of Turkish Intelligence 1968-1969 Report on the work of Turkish intelligence services in Bulgaria.
May 31, 1979	Report on Iraqi Intelligence Services Activity in Bulgaria
April 1, 1982	Report from Gen. G. Anachkov on Counterintelligence Work Against US Intelligence Activity
July 25, 1983	Information from Gen. G. Anachkov on Albanian intelligence Officers’ Recruitment of Agents in Bulgaria
June 2007	Pseudonym. Folder 11. The Chekist Anthology. Mitrokhin states that discipline was the main reason for assigning a pseudonym to a KGB agent. Some agents refused to choose a pseudonym, considering it to be humiliating. But as Mitrokhin points out, a refusal to use a pseudonym could diminish the psychological and operational effect of the recruitment process. The KGB Order No. 00430 stipulated that all recruits had to sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding their collaboration with the agency. The KGB Order No. 00235 specified that the most valuable agents had to be indexed solely by their respective pseudonyms. As a recruitment tactic, Mitrokhin notes, the use of a pseudonym enhanced agent’s awareness of the secretive nature of one’s work and accentuated the conspiratorial function of the KGB.
June 2007	Directorate K Memorandum No. 153/838, 21 January 1976. Folder 13. The Chekist Anthology The Memorandum No. 153/838 considered problems associated with the dissident movement of the Peoples Workers’ Union (Narodno-trudovoy soyuz, NTS). Vasili Mitrokhin writes that among the primary concerns mentioned in the Memorandum was the execution of complex active measures to aggravate contradictions between the leadership of various NTS groups. The Memorandum instructed operatives to observe relations of the NTS with the publishers of the journal “Continent.” In order to fuel up tensions between the NTS groups, operatives needed to, among other things, find out whether members of the “Continent” received higher payments than members of the NTS. In general, Mitrokhin suggests that the foremost purpose of the Memorandum was to gather disreputable information and undermine activities of the NTS.