In November 1979, Vital Fedorchuk, head of the Ukraine branch of the Soviet KGB, wrote a top-secret memo to the head of the republic’s Central Committee, warning of a grave plot by Western security agencies to undermine the Soviet Union.
RFE/RL: Inside the Soviet KGB’s secret war on Western books
A view of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in downtown Moscow on Nov. 16, 2018.
