Agents of Influence, Mark Hollingsworth
Agents of Influence, Mark Hollingsworth
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Agents of Influence
How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

Author: Mark Hollingsworth

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2023


Synopsis

There's no such thing as a former KGB man.

Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale. In 1985, 1,300 KGB officers were stationed in the USA. The FBI only had 350 counter-intelligence officers. Since the early days of the Cold War, the KGB seduced parliamentarians and diplomats, infiltrated the highest echelons of the Civil Service, and planted fake news in papers across the world.

More disturbingly, it never stopped. Putin is a KGB man through and through. Journalist Mark Hollingworth reveals how disinformation, kompromat and secret surveillance continue to play key roles in Russia's war with Ukraine. It seems frighteningly easy to destabilize Western democracy.

About Mark Hollingsworth

Mark Hollingsworth is a journalist, historian, and author of ten books, notably Londongrad, Saudi Babylon, an acclaimed study of the MI5, and biographies of Mark Thatcher and Tim Bell. He worked for Granada TV's award-winning World In Action documentary series for five years and also writes regularly for the Times, Mail on Sunday, Spectator, Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rui

Este livro fala-nos sobre uma organização de espionagem. As suas ideias e as suas intenções são aqui, expostos por inúmeros episódios que nos chegam por diversos agentes, intervenientes e/ou acontecimentos históricos. O funcionamento do KGB e as formas utilizadas pelos mesmos para destabilizar o mun......more

Goodreads review by Eric

This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the modern Russia. I must be honest and report that I found the first third of the book quite repetitive, but the product as a whole is a valuable guide on Putin and his cronies. He has ruined his country and seems to have persuaded the people t......more

Goodreads review by Sheila

Meh ... Some of the stories are interesting especially the chapter about interference in American presidential politics, but the writing is not engaging with too much passive voice and confusing references e.g. one to Nelson Rockefeller as the "former vice-president" serving in the Eisenhower White......more