The story of the Mitrokhin Archive is one of the most improbable acts of individual defiance in the history of espionage. For 12 years, a quiet KGB archivist named Vasili Mitrokhin
: Efforts to portray the civil rights leader as a "government stooge."
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: Many PDF versions of the archive include Mitrokhin's original drawings of secret drop-off points and "dead letter boxes" used for communication between agents.