Alexander Orlov’s Handbook of Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare (Part 4)
The Illegal Residentura and the New Identity Quick note: residentura is a term meaning a group of spies, particularly soviet...
October 27, 2021
Book Reviews
Alexander Orlov’s Handbook of Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare (Part 3)
Targets of Soviet Intelligence There were two main intelligence agencies in the Soviet union at the time, the GRU and...
October 27, 2021
Alexander Orlov’s Handbook of Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare (Part 2)
Two Doctrines Going into WW2, the US had no intelligence apparatus. They relied almost exclusively on observations by military attaches...
October 27, 2021
Alexander Orlov’s Handbook of Intelligence and Guerrilla Warfare (Part 1)
Who was Alexander Orlov? Alexander Orlov was an NKVD Rezident who defected to the US in 1938. His defection was...
October 26, 2021