And related stuff.
Jakarta Method
This one, or so I've heard. I want to read it anyways.
A great read, IMO.
>>25559951Gravity's Rainbow
The Christopher Andrews KGB "trilogy">KGB the Inside Story goes over Soviet intelligence services in general, mostly from Lenin's Cheka through the NKVD years and then as it morphed into the KGB. Shows the morphing of the intelligence apparatus from enforcers of the Soviet Union to basically being managers and kingmakers for not just the country but for international communism as a whole. Also gets into the paranoid and delusional thinking that occurs when an organization has unchecked power and a poorly-defined enemy.>The Sword and the Shield is all about the fuckity-games that were played with the West during the Cold war. Active measures and the cool stuff like assassinations are in this one, but what's just as interesting is the massive logistical/financial/diplomatic apparatus that propped up any of the Tom Clancy operations that made the news. Really goes to show just how far embedded in everything the KGB's influence was, and how it was designed to be that way.>The World Was Going Our Way focuses on the Soviet's influence campaigns throughout the third world. Propaganda, funding for terror groups (that don't count as terror groups when they're friendly, that's the utility of propaganda) and the gigantic animal that was the USSR's secret network of funds. Also shows the effectiveness of influence being varied when it comes to actually attaining Soviet goals, as opposed to just having people whining about capitalism and waving a flag. Turns out those are two different things.Also to add is>Putin's People, written by a different author (Catherine Belton) which is more focused on Putin's rise in power after returning to Leningrad during the start of the Soviet collapse and his various adventures in trying to run a country full of Russians, with all the backstabbing and apathy that entails. Besides the big shakeup in the 00s after the smuggling scandal and the ways in which power structures are held together or collapse based on the specific relationship between the man at the top and the men just below him, it also has a great transition from the Andrew books in showcasing Putin's days as a spry young KGB officer in Dresden, and how the previously-mentioned metric shitloads of offshore funds the KGB held by selling Soviet stuff at rock-bottom prices via front companies came into play in Russian power politics through the 80s and 90s as the Soviet intelligence community realized the country was going to collapse.
>>25559951what is happening?
