Daughters of the KGB : Moscow's secret spies, sleepers and assassins of the Cold War

pt. 1: Setting the Scene: 1. Through a Glass Darkly -- 2. Life is a Game of Chess -- pt. 2: The Stasi in German Democratic Republic -- 3. Deutschland Unter Russland -- 4. Creating a New Class of Criminals -- 5. Fear as a Political Tool -- 6. The New Class Enemy -- 7. Lies, Spies and More Spies -- 8. War on the West -- 9. War in the Air -- 10. HVA Versus MI5 -- 11. Death of the Stasi -- pt. 3 State Terror in Central Europe: 12. The Polish UB -- Crushing a Suffering Nation -- 13. Betrayal, Beatings, Elections and Executions -- 14. The Horizontal Spy -- 15. The StB Versus the Czechs and Slovaks -- 16. The ABC of Espionage -- Agents, Blackmail, Codes -- 17. The AVO and Bloodshed in Budapest -- 18. Magyars on Mission Abroad -- pt. 4 State Terror in Eastern Europe: 19. The KDS, Dimitrov's Lethal Homecoming Present to Bulgaria -- 20. A Different Umbrella in Bucharest -- 21. Albania, From Serfdom to the Sigurimi Secret Police.;Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about its 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years. After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his NKVD #8211; a predecessor of the KGB #8211; officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model. When the resultant hatred exploded in uprisings #8211; in GDR 1953, Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 #8211; they were put down by brutality, bloodshed and Soviet tanks. What was at first not so obvious was that these state terror organisations were also designed for military and commercial espionage in the West, to conceal the real case officers in Moscow. Specially trained operatives undertook mokrye dyela or 'wet jobs', including assassination of émigrés and other anti-Soviet figures. Perhaps the most menacing were the sleepers who settled in the West, married and had children while waiting to strike against their host countries. Many of them are still among us. Here, historian and author Douglas Boyd explores for the first time the relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of 'daughters' #8211; a true family from hell Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about is 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War. Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years. They arrested and imprisoned without trial anyone not toeing the Moscow line, earning the hatred of their compatriots. When this boiled over - in GDR 1953, Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 - Russian troops and tanks mowed down unarmed protestors. The 'daughters' also carried out espionage and mokrye dyela assassinations for Moscow in Britain and other Western countries, such as the murder of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978, and occasionally...