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'''Vasili Mitrokhin''' (March 3, 1922–January 23, 2004) is a former KGB officer who defected from [[Russia]].  He was exfiltrated from Russia in 1992 by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).  Mitrokhin was accompanied by his family and 6 cases representing twelve years of daily note taking of KGB files going back as far as 1918.

'''Vasili Mitrokhin''' (March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) is a former KGB officer who defected from [[Russia]].  He was exfiltrated from Russia in 1992 by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).  Mitrokhin was accompanied by his family and 6 cases representing twelve years of daily note taking of KGB files going back as far as 1918.

== Biography ==

== Biography ==

Vasili Mitrokhin was born in central Russia in 1922.  He began his career as an intelligence officer in 1948 working for the Committee of Information--the temporarily combined MGB (future KGB) and GRU (Soviet military intelligence).<ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1}}</ref>  His first five years in intelligence were during the final paranoid years of Stalin's dictatorship, when intelligence agencies were enjoined to conduct investigations against usually imaginary [[Tito|Titoist]] and Zionist conspiracies. <ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1-2}}</ref>

Vasili Mitrokhin was born in central Russia in 1922.  He began his career as an intelligence officer in 1948 working for the Committee of Information—the temporarily combined MGB (future KGB) and GRU (Soviet military intelligence).<ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1}}</ref>  His first five years in intelligence were during the final paranoid years of Stalin's dictatorship, when intelligence agencies were enjoined to conduct investigations against usually imaginary [[Tito]]ist and Zionist conspiracies.<ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1-2}}</ref>

Mitrokhin tried twice to defect to the CIA, but was turned down each time because the CIA wanted to "maintain high moral ground" by not recruiting KGB defecters.<ref>{{hnb|Trulock|2004}}</ref>  Subsequently, he turned to the SIS, who exfiltrated Mitrokhin from [[Latvia]], including his family, and 6 cases of notes on KGB files.<ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1}}, {{hnb|Trulock|2004}}, {{hnb|AP|2004}}</ref>

Mitrokhin tried twice to defect to the CIA, but was turned down each time because the CIA wanted to "maintain high moral ground" by not recruiting KGB defecters.<ref>{{hnb|Trulock|2004}}</ref>  Subsequently, he turned to the SIS, who exfiltrated Mitrokhin from [[Latvia]], including his family, and 6 cases of notes on KGB files.<ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1}}, {{hnb|Trulock|2004}}, {{hnb|AP|2004}}</ref>

== Mitrokhin Archive ==

== Mitrokhin Archive ==

== References ==  

== References ==

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== Sources ==

== Sources ==