B. de Jong

Het moet er democratisch uitzien, maar wij moeten alles onder controle hebben [Bespreking van: L. van de Grift (2011) Securing the communist state: the reconstruction of coercive institutions in the Soviet zone of Germany and Romania, 1944-1948]

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The KGB in Eastern Europe during the Cold War: On Agents and Confidential Contacts

Gloria Reyes, Cologne, Germany, for their critical remarks on an earlier version of this article. 1 Unless clearly otherwise indicated, “Eastern Europe” refers to the countries of the former Soviet bloc that belonged to the Warsaw Pact, i.e. Yugoslavia and Albania are excluded. In this article, I will only discuss Soviet intelligence activities in Eastern Europe after the Second World War. 2 Former KGB general Nikolai Leonov writes in his memoirs that the KGB had no official representative in Rumania during the Cold War. Nikolai Leonov, Likholet’e (“Evil times”) (Moscow: Meždunarodnye Otnošenija, 1994), 192, 231.