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'''Vasili Mitrokhin''' (1922) 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 ==
Vasili Mitrokhin was born in central Russia in 1922. He began is career as an intelligence officer in 1948 working for the Committe 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 commanded to conduct investigations against usually imaginary Titoist and Zionist conspiracies. <ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1-2}}</ref>
== Mitrokhin Archive ==
== References ==
<references/>
== Sources ==
*{{Harvard reference
| Surname1 = Andrew
| Given1 = Christopher
| Surname2 = Mitrokhin
| Given2 = Vasili
| Year = 1999
| Title = The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
| Publisher = Basic Books
| ID = ISBN 0-465-00310-9
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitrokhin, Vasili}}
[[Category:Espionage]]
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
== Biography ==
Vasili Mitrokhin was born in central Russia in 1922. He began is career as an intelligence officer in 1948 working for the Committe 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 commanded to conduct investigations against usually imaginary Titoist and Zionist conspiracies. <ref>{{hnb|Andrew & Mitronkhin|1999|Ref=CITEREFAndrewMitrokhin1999|p=1-2}}</ref>
== Mitrokhin Archive ==
== References ==
<references/>
== Sources ==
*{{Harvard reference
| Surname1 = Andrew
| Given1 = Christopher
| Surname2 = Mitrokhin
| Given2 = Vasili
| Year = 1999
| Title = The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
| Publisher = Basic Books
| ID = ISBN 0-465-00310-9
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitrokhin, Vasili}}
[[Category:Espionage]]
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]