I can't exactly remember when I read this book, it must have been somewhere in the early nineties. It fit snugly into my parents' personal library when I chanced upon it. What I do remember, though, is that I found this book a very impressive and enveloping read, indeed. A whole catalog of the KGB's most dirty tricks within the context of (sometimes bungled) attempts at geopolitical scheming on a larger-than-life scale. Better than the average fictional accounts in movies, and such. ( )