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Show IO HILL TOP TIMES Friday, Novmbr 2, 1984 Motes on o mew books By Dr. Roger D. Launius Office of History Inside Soviet Military Intelligence. By Viktor Suvorov. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1984. 187 pp., $15.95. The murky world of Soviet military intelligence is both compelling and repulsive for most Americans. Certainly the Soviet Union has the most powerful military intelligence service in the world with their State Security Committee, commonly called the KGB. The Soviets also have a second powerful military intelligence service, the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff or the GRU. This book, written under a pseudonym by a Soviet defector living in the United Kingdom, describes in vivid detail the organization, inner workings, and clandestine operations of these two powerful intelligence organizations. To a very great extent, it fulfills its goal of informing the western world of the threat that exists from the Soviet in, pionage hierarchy in place within the Soviet Union, although both the KGB and the GRU have traditionally been shrouded in secrecy. He discusses with the familiarity of an insider the departmental functions of each organization, and takes a provocative look at the internal dealings of the organizations with each other and with the Communist Party, the Red Army, and the other members of the Sovietinv 'telligence community. While this makes fascinating reading, nearly half of the book is concerned with recent Soviet intelligence and espionage activities. He describes, again with apparent familiarity, operations involving reconnaissance and surveillance, foreign agents, clandestine intelligence gathering, operational intelligence gathered for the implementation of military activity, and tactical reconnaissance used to facilitate military operations. The most startling portion of the book involves thedescription of the Soviet Union's efforts to use foreigners as agents. Once having been recruited by the intelligence organization and having undergone intensive training in the Soviet Union, a citizen of one of the western nations returns to his or her own country to begin clandestine operations. Usually these agents work in small groups, each member becoming involved in a different field of espionage but all under the direction of an experienced group leader. Except for the group leader who maintained contact with Soviets the members of the group are totally isolated from Soviet contact, thereby decreasing the likelihood of discovery. Inside Soviet Military Intelligence's concluding chapters offer valuable information on how to block Soviet espionage efforts. Fuel corasum p t io n sees red UdiB1 telligence community. These Soviet intelligence organizations originated in 1918 as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin, concerned about instability within the government, created a network of internal intelligence agencies but because of a fear that a single organization would become too powerful Lenin disallowed a monopoly of secret activity. The author contends that Lenin's principle of division within the intelligence community has been continued through the present. Each military staff has traditionally had its own independent intelligence establishment and very little interchange of information has taken place between them. The KGB and the GRU grew out of these independent organizations and still hold a healthy distrust for each other. Suvorov provides an intriguing account of the es oe'fcOOT By Jerry Bitton Directorate of Maintenance In fiscal year 1981, the Directorate of Maintenance, in a concentrated effort to reduce energy v consumption and dependence on foreign imports, started conversion of selected vehicles within the directorate fleet to dual fuels, propane and gasoline. 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