Trudy of the KGB Higher School, No. 45 (1989)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Top-secret issue of the KGB's flagship internal journal — eleven sections on counterintelligence methodology, agent recruitment and handling, and state-security doctrine for operational officers.
Read more →Trudy of the KGB Higher School, No. 41–42 (1987)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Double issue marking the 70th anniversary of the VChK–KGB, with articles on CIA recruitment models, technical intelligence, and preventive counterintelligence work.
Read more →KGB on Ukrainian Nationalists (1963)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Internal KGB analysis of Ukrainian nationalist movements and the counterintelligence measures directed against them.
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KGB Analysis of the Activities of the British Secret Intelligence Service
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Internal KGB assessment of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service — structure, methods, and operational vulnerabilities.
Read more →KGB Counterintelligence in Tourism (1977)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
KGB methodology for counterintelligence work along the foreign-tourism channel.
Read more →Working with Agents (1970)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The KGB's manual on the recruitment, handling, and management of agents (Rabota s agenturoy).
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KGB Manuals: Espionage Training
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The KGB's espionage training manuals, translated from the original Russian — the tradecraft of agent operations, surveillance, and cover.
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KGB Manuals: Espionage Training, Volume II
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The second volume of the KGB's espionage training manuals.
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Recruitment Under a False Flag
KGB Training Manual · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The KGB training manual on recruiting agents under a false flag — the technique of approaching a target beneath a cover identity.
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Conspiracy in Intelligence Work
KGB Training Manual · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The KGB training manual on conspiracy (konspiratsiya) — the discipline of secrecy that governs all intelligence work.
Read more →Sbornik of the KGB, No. 146–147 (1991)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Combined issue of the KGB's classified monthly collection on agent-operational and investigative work.
Read more →Sbornik of the KGB, No. 136 (1989)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
1989 issue of the KGB's classified monthly collection of articles on agent-operational and investigative work.
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The History of Soviet State Security
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The history of the Soviet state security organs, from the Cheka to the KGB.
Read more →S.I.M. — Carte Segrete (2014)
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Italian-language journal devoted to the S.I.M., Italy's fascist-era military intelligence service.
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Covert Repression in the War Against Individuals and Groups
Simon Steed
A study of the covert techniques used to repress, isolate, and neutralize individuals and groups.
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(Anti-) Observation
Harry Wells
What did professional surveillance look like before cameras, drones, and digital tracking? How did intelligence officers maintain constant observation of a target using nothing more than patience, teamwork, and meticulous attention to detail — and how could an insider use that same knowledge to evade detection?
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Weaponized Psychology
Cameron Vale · Sinister House Training Manual 003
The 398-page operational manual on influence in the digital domain — moving from technical execution to the orchestration of perception and behavior. Covers the deception framework, psychological exploitation gambits, online HUMINT, strategic influence, and operational security.
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Manual of Stasi Operational Techniques
Sinister House Training Manual 004
A structured analysis of the Stasi's methods — informant (IM) management, surveillance, “Romeo” espionage, Zersetzung disruption, and disinformation — each mapped onto its modern digital counterpart.
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Cyber Influence Operations
Applied Human Science for Online Covert Action · Sinister House Training Manual 005
Applied human science for online covert action: the systematic use of validated psychology, sociology, and behavioral research for strategic influence in the digital domain.
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Influence Architecture
Sinister House Training Manual 006
A framework for constructing and steering perception at scale: concealing intent, dissimulation, vulnerability mapping, cognitive-bias exploitation, and consensus engineering.
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The Gray Spectrum
Cameron Vale
A manual of non-conventional strategy — operating across the gray zone between war and peace, where influence, pressure, and concealment do the work of open conflict.
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Breaking the Box
Harry Wells
The modern playbook for defeating surveillance — counter-surveillance tradecraft for the digital age.
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We Didn't Start the Fire
Roger Ferris
The quiet logic of asymmetric takeover — strategy for reshaping institutions and systems from within.
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Architects of Chaos
John Preston
A strategic playbook for inducing conflict and reshaping nations — the deliberate engineering of instability.
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In Aid of the Scout (1941)
V. I. Pryanishnikov · Voenmorizdat · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
A wartime Red Navy handbook for scouts: finding the cardinal points without a compass (by trees, stumps, moss, anthills, the Sun and the stars), keeping one's bearings in the forest, and telling the time without a watch.
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Agent Intelligence, Volume I
K. K. Zvonarev · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
Zvonarev's study of Russian agent intelligence of all types before and during the war of 1914–1918 — from the Russo-Japanese War to the imperial intelligence apparatus in the field, with documentary appendices and a lexicon of intelligence.
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Agent Intelligence, Volume II
K. K. Zvonarev · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
The companion volume on German agent intelligence before and during the war of 1914–1918 — organization, recruitment, disguise and payment of agents, the wartime agent service, deep and frontal intelligence, communications, and the struggle against enemy agents.
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Counterintelligence Work on the Temporary Exit of Soviet Citizens Abroad (1977)
Lt.-Gen. V. I. Alidin · Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
A KGB Higher School manual on counterintelligence along the channel of temporary foreign travel — the exit system, enemy subversion on the travel channel, work before departure, during the stay abroad, and after return, and the use of the channel for intelligence and active measures.
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KGB Manuals: Agents
Translated by Aleksander Bremovych
A compilation of classified KGB manuals on work with agents — recruitment, cultivation, confidential contacts, psychological types, conspiracy, the agent network, recruiting for penetration into US institutions, operational installations, and communications with agents.
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