The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?
Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean — members of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring of British double agents who secretly passed critical information to the Soviet Union in the first half of the 20th century. Better known under his alias “Korovin,” he was also intimately engaged in recruiting another one of Her Majesty’s greatest traitors — one George Blake, a Secret Intelligence Service officer who volunteered to spy for the Soviets after being captured The post The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean — members of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring of British double agents who secretly passed critical information to the Soviet Union in the first half of the 20th century. Better known under his alias “Korovin,” he was also intimately engaged in recruiting another one of Her Majesty’s greatest traitors — one George Blake, a Secret Intelligence Service officer who volunteered to spy for the Soviets after being captured
The post The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
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