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H-HOAC The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin Discussion published by John Haynes on Friday, July 11, 2014 Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/MITN Title The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin Reference GBR/0014/MITN Mitrokhin, Vasiliy, 1922-2004, Archivist, First Chief Directorate (foreign Creator intelligence), KGB Covering Dates 1972–2004 33 archive boxes; paper; Manuscript notes and notebooks, typescript Extent and Medium volumes.; Cyrillic Repository Churchill Archives Centre Content and context Vasiliy Mitrokhin was born in central Russia on 3 March 1922 and began training as an archivist before transferring to the Kharkov Higher Juridical Institute from which he graduated in 1944. After serving briefly as a police lawyer he was nominated for a three year course at the Higher Diplomatic School in Moscow. From 1948 he worked in foreign intelligence for the Committee of Information, undertaking several short term foreign assignments, before being assigned to the foreign intelligence archives in the KGB First Chief Directorate. From 1972 onwards, until his retirement in 1984, he took extensive manuscript notes of many of the papers passing through his hands. Following his retirement he organised this material geographically and typed out systematic studies of KGB operations in different parts of the world in 10 volumes. He and his family and his archive were exfiltrated from the Soviet Union by the Secret Intelligence Service in 1992. Once in London, Mitrokhin continued to work on transcribing and typing his manuscript notes, producing a further 26 typed volumes, which provided the basis for the two volume book with Professor Christopher Andrew, "The Mitrokhin Archive" (Penguin, 1999). Vasiliy Mitrokhin died in January 2004. The collection comprises manuscript notes, and the redacted and edited typescript copies of the original notes, of documents from the KGB archive. All documents are in Russian. Deposited by Vladimir Mitrokhin (son), 2012-13. A small segment of the papers deal with operations in the United States: MITN box 1/6 (United States of America) and MITN box 2/9 (K8: USA - Directorate S) Citation: John Haynes. The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin. H-HOAC. 07-11-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/34739/papers-vasiliy-mitrokhin Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1.

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