Thousands of Leaked KGB Files Are Now Open To the Public

schwit1 (797399) writes "Over 20 years after being smuggled out of Russia, a trove of KGB documents are being opened up to the public for the first time. The leaked documents include thousands of files and represent what the FBI is said to view as "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." The documents include KGB information on secret Russian weapons caches, Russian spies, and KGB information on the activities of Pope John Paul II. Known as the Mitrokhin Archive, the files are all available as of today at Churchill College's Archives Centre."

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Re:Not anonymously available

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, in the age of the Internet, the amount of petulance and behavior appropriate for those more along the age of a two-year-old is very commonplace. "We Demand! We will hold our breaths until we get what we want! I don't care if it is yours! I WANT IT AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!"

Maybe Churchill College can tell people like you that the World and all its denizens do not exist solely to appease selfish assholes like you.

Re:seems like snowden did the exact same thing.

[mi]

They served vastly different regimes. Mitrokhin betrayed Communists — followers of the deadliest school of thought known to humanity so far (even Hitler's peculiar brand of Fascism was but a distant second). Wherever Communism is attempted in earnest — USSR, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia — the result is always mass-murder followed by economic misery and total absence of the human rights for the survivors.

Snowden betrayed America. Whatever problems — genuine and imaginary — you may have with the USA, USSR (and modern Russia) are far worse.

That's the difference — even if the actual betrayals are similar. But all of this is empty rhetoric for people, who sincerely equate Joseph McCarthy with Lavrenty Beria, so I'm not holding much hope here...