<blockquote>'"On Russia, we have no illusions about the regime we are dealing with," Tillerson wrote. "The United States today has a poor relationship with a resurgent Russia that has invaded its neighbors Georgia and Ukraine in the last decade and undermined the sovereignty of Western nations by meddling in our election and others."'
- CNN (
Source, December 29, 2017)</blockquote>
<blockquote>'We take democratic values so much for granted.
..
Afghanistan, KGB (War - Andropov).'
- Christopher Andrew (presentation at the International Spy Museum,
The World Was Going Our Way), September 29, 2005</blockquote>
<blockquote>'There are glimpses of Mitrokhin’s mindset in the titles he gave the volumes, including “The Accursed Regime” and “The Mousetrap.”'
-
KGB papers, kept in secret since 1992, released by British archive, July 6, 2014</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Nearly 20 years after this book was published, it is a good time to think how much the mindset and methods of work really changed.'
- Arete-Zoe (
Review:
More Instructions from the Centre: Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985, August 28, 2011)</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
The Sword and the Shield - The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, 1999
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World, 2017
Mitrokhin’s KGB archive opens to public, 2014
Interview: Historian Says Mitrokhin Archive Shows Value Of Human Intelligence, July 9, 2014
'A very Soviet message.' (m. 21:22) -
Podcast: The Secret Policeman's Ball, December 22, 2017
'..Putin and company .. serial violators of an age-old tenet of governance: that prosperity and stability must begin at home.'</blockquote>