| Abbreviations and Acronyms | xi |
| The Evolution of the KGB, 1917-1991 | xv |
| The Transliteration of Russian Names | xvii |
| Foreword | xix |
| 1 | The Mitrokhin Archive | 1 |
| 2 | From Lenin's Cheka to Stalin's OGPU | 23 |
| 3 | The Great Illegals | 42 |
| 4 | The Magnificent Five | 56 |
| 5 | Terror | 68 |
| 6 | War | 89 |
| 7 | The Grand Alliance | 104 |
| 8 | Victory | 122 |
| 9 | From War to Cold War | 137 |
| 10 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 1 | North American Illegals in the 1950's | 162 |
| 11 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 2 | Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Early Cold War | 176 |
| 12 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 3 | Illegals after "Abel" | 190 |
| 13 | The Main Adversary | |
| Part 4 | Walk-ins and Legal Residencies in the Later Cold War | 203 |
| 14 | Political Warfare: Active Measures and the Main Adversary | 224 |
| 15 | Progress Operations | |
| Part 1 | Crushing the Prague Spring | 247 |
| 16 | Progress Operations | |
| Part 2 | Spying on the Soviet Bloc | 262 |
| 17 | The KGB and Western Communist Parties | 276 |
| 18 | Eurocommunism | 294 |
| 19 | Ideological Subversion | |
| Part 1 | The War Against the Dissidents | 307 |
| 20 | Ideological Subversion | |
| Part 2 | The Victory of the Dissidents | 322 |
| 21 | Sigint in the Cold War | 337 |
| 22 | Special Tasks | |
| Part 1 | From Marshal Tito to Rudolf Nureyev | 356 |
| 23 | Special Tasks | |
| Part 2 | The Andropov Era and Beyond | 374 |
| 24 | Cold War Operations Against Britain | |
| Part 1 | After the "Magnificent Five" | 397 |
| 25 | Cold War Operations Against Britain | |
| Part 2 | After Operation FOOT | 417 |
| 26 | The Federal Republic of Germany | 437 |
| 27 | France and Italy during the Cold War: Agent Penetration and Active Measures | 460 |
| 28 | The Penetration and Persecution of the Soviet Churches | 486 |
| 29 | The Polish Pope and the Rise of Solidarity | 508 |
| 30 | The Polish Crisis and the Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc | 517 |
| 31 | Conclusion: From the One-Party State to the Yeltsin Presidency | 544 |
| Appendices | |
| A | KGB Chairmen, 1917-26 | 566 |
| B | Heads of Foreign Intelligence, 1920-99 | 567 |
| C | The Organization of the KGB | 568 |
| D | The Organization of the KGB First Chief Directorate | 569 |
| E | The Organization of a KGB Residency | 570 |
| Notes | 571 |
| Bibliography | 669 |
| Index | 683 |