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Borrowable or downloadable PDF/EPUB formats depending on regional copyright access. Tips for Researching the Archive PDFs

Every day, he hid handwritten notes in his boots and pockets, smuggling them out of the KGB headquarters. At his country home (dacha), he typed up these notes and buried them in milk crates beneath the floorboards.

The KGB rarely used real names in their documentation. Cross-reference the PDFs with an online KGB code name registry to identify the historical figures hiding behind aliases.

If you download an older scan of the archive that is not text-searchable, run the PDF through a free Optical Character Recognition tool (like Adobe Acrobat or Google Drive) to make the text searchable.

The archive exposed an unprecedented scale of Soviet infiltration across the globe: