KGB Material Released By Cold War Project, Available Online

pha7boy writes "The Cold War International History Project just released the 'Vassiliev Notebooks.' The notebooks are an important new source of information on Soviet intelligence operations in the United States from 1930 to 1950. Though the KGB's archive remains closed, former KGB officer turned journalist Alexander Vassiliev was given the unique opportunity to spend two years poring over materials from the KGB archive taking detailed notes — including extended verbatim quotes — on some of the KGB's most sensitive files. Though Vassiliev's access was not unfettered, the 1,115 pages of densely handwritten notes that he was able to take shed new and important light on such critical individuals and topics as Alger Hiss, the Rosenberg case, and 'Enormous,' the massive Soviet effort to gather intelligence on the Anglo-American atomic bomb project. Alexander Vassiliev has donated his original copies of the handwritten notebooks to the Library of Congress with no restriction on access. They are available to researchers in the Manuscript Division."

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He did what for two years?

[CannonballHead]

... two years poring over ...

Must have been quite the sweaty fellow. :)

Re:He did what for two years?

[SIR_Taco]

Pun
noun
1. the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
2. the word or phrase used in this way.

verb (used without object)
3. to make puns.

Does that help?

Re:He did what for two years?

[LaskoVortex]

you wog-brained shitcock.

An interesting expletive, is it British or Australian English?

The "shitcock" is a nesting bird primarily located in the northern hemisphere. It is closely related to the "fucktwit" in that both are members of Phasianidae family of birds. While not known for their intelligence, they are considerably smarter than the common wog of the order Galliformes.

Male shitcocks and fucktwits can be identified by a peculiar ability to act annoying and sometimes even hostile. Such behavior and a similar appearance often evokes comparisons to wogs despite their only distant relation. These activities are associated with mating patterns and are surprisingly affective at attracting the female members of the species.

Now Moose and Squirrel know secret KGB plans

[Anonymous Coward]

Boris! What shall we do!

Re:And...?

[Anonymous Coward]

//The executive summary please.

In Soviet Russia, notes take you?

Re:#2

[JackieBrown]

You don't honestly think that is a republican posting, do you?

Those kind of post are people just trying to make all conservatives look ignorant (yet not ignorant enough to post on slashdot anonymously.)

Do you think someone who is that stupid could even work a computer?

Re:And...?

[FilterMapReduce]

I prefer:

In post-Soviet Russia, KGB shows its papers to YOU!

It's sort of inspiring, actually.

Re:How redacted is it?

[Hognoxious]

The Russian government serve considerably fewer "cease and desist" notices than the USA's.

I'm only counting written ones, of cour&
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Re:Yes but...

[Vidar Leathershod]

No, they have actually formed our recent history. See this post below:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1234821&cid=27975543

Their infiltration of our higher ed system and popular culture can be clearly seen today. It's eerie that if you watch Ronald Reagan's farewell address, you notice that at the end, it's the decline in the core of American sensibilities he is worried about, despite the increase in national pride under his administration.

http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3418

Re:#2 - Poor KGB!

[meburke]

The world might be quite different if the KGB had realized how wasy it was to get the USA to elect a Communist, foreign-born, Muslim president.