16 JANUARY 1971, page 12

To What Purpose?

What, then, are these purposes? To begin with, the money must have come in quite useful : the USSR is short of foreign currency, and the KGB is involved in many expensive......

A Surfeit Of Lies

But even allowing for the selection and editing by the KGB, might there not remain some worthwhile facts concerning a country about which we know so little? The book does......

Scissors And Paste

Now for the claim that these are Khrushchevi authentic reminiscences, an analysis of their style shows that hardly any—probably none—of these fragments were dictated by......