To what extent could Vasili Mitrokhin be considered a trustworthy source with access to sensitive details regarding the KGB's operations abroad, when he was in service?
How then did the MI-6 and Christopher Andrew believe his version and accept the correctness of his notes?
Why then was there no follow-up action in the form of interrogation of the still surviving suspects named by him and prosecuting them?
Does the book add anything to our knowledge of the techniques followed by the KGB?
What is the counter-intelligence value of the details (presuming they are correct) given by Mitrokhin?
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B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow, the International Terrorism Watch Programme (ITWP) of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and Convenor of its Chennai Chapter.
