Issue of Mitrokhin archives

On September 11, 1999 London "The Times", radio corporation BBC and other British mass media settled down to the exposition and comments of the book by a scientist from Cambridge Christopher Andrew "Mitrokhin’s archive". It’s stated that this book has been written on basis of secret materials which have been exported secretly by the former KGB archive officer Vasily Mitrokhin.

Mitrokhin purports escaped to the West in 1992 by catching 6 cases with "thousands of most secret files" by KGB external intelligence.

First who suffered from the book’s publication was Melita Horwood who was presented as "one of more valuable KGB agents in Great Britain". This English woman who is now 87 was cooperating with the Soviet intelligence  for more than 4 decades beginning from 1937. Especially valuable materials were got from her to the USSR during the period after the World War II when she worked as a secretary of British association on research of non-ferrous metals (BAICM).

Participants:

• British special services
• Christopher Andrew
• USSR KGB
• RF Service of external intelligence (SVR)

Resources:

• Nezavisimaya gazeta 18.09.99 "Spy scandal is spread out"
• INOPRESS "Mitrokhin file: atomic "minibombs" of KGB in NATO countries"
• Kavkaz.org "Former Russian spy stated that Russia buried the explosive at USA territory"
• Infoart 09.12.99 "BRITISH MASS MEDIA SETTLED DOWN TO THE EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK "MITROKHIN’S ARCHIVE’ PURPORTS WRITTEN ON THE BASIS OF SECRETE MATERIALS UNKNOWN EXPORTED TO THE WEST BY THE FORMER ARCHIEVE OFFICER OF KGB"
• Lenta.ru 17.09.99 "Times publishes "KGB archives"
• Trud 01.03.2000 "Intelligence come to close quarters"
• Obschaya gazeta 22.06.2000 "British special services took too much souvenirs"