HERBERT ROMERSTEIN served the United States government from 1965 to 1989. He was an investigator for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on UnAmerican Activities, 1965 to 1971 and was Minority Chief Investigator for the House Committee on Internal Security, 1971 to 1975. He was a Professional Staff Member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 1978 to 1983, and he headed the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation of the United States Information Agency, 1983 to 1989. Romerstein is the author (with Eric Breindel) of The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors (2000) and Heroic Victims, Stalin's Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War (1994), and (with Stanislav Levchenko) The KGB Against the 'Main Enemy' (1989). He presently teaches a course in propaganda analysis at the Institute of World Politics, a post-graduate school of state craft in Washington, D.C.

JERCA VODUŠEK STARIČ, Ph.D., is a historian who for many years did research on Slovene and Yugoslav political history of the Second World War and the immediate postwar period at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. In 1996, she became assistant professor of 20th Century History at the University in Maribor later to become full professor. She has published several books, among them The Takeover of Power 1944-1946 (1992), which received an award by the Republic of Slovenia, and Slovene Spies and SOE 1938-1942 (2002), in addition to many articles based on her research in the national archives of Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Great Britain and the United States. She is currently the director of the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana and teaches part time at the university.

WILLIAM STIVERS, earned a Ph.D. in international relations history from the Johns Hopkins University. He has held teaching posts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Colorado College, the University of Southern California’s international relations graduate program in Germany, and the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. From 1986-1990, he worked as historian, G5, US Command, Berlin. He came to the US Army Center of Military History in 1998 and was posted for three years at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany. He has published books and articles dealing with Anglo-American relations in the 1920s, US Middle East policy, and postwar German history.

YURI TOTROV served as editor/writer in Sovinformbureau in 1958, in 1958-1960 he was with the Soviet Foreign Ministry (attaché in Bangkok), and from 1960 to 1992 in the First Chief Directorate (Intelligence) of the KGB. Since June 1992 he is retired but is active in the Russian Association of Retired Intelligence Officers and the Society for the Study of the National Special Services. He has published on intelligence matters.

PAVEL ŽÁČEK received his Ph.D. in 1969 and is senior researcher in The Institute of Contemporary History of the Academy of Sciences (Prague). He is the author of The Organisation of the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry Apparatus, 1953-1990 (2005), The Little Sister: The Origin and Development of the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry First Directorate, 1953-1959. Volume I (2004), State Security on Slovakia during Normalisation. The Agony of Communist Power in Secret Police Police Reports (2002), and a number of additional publications.