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YURI TOTROV
Western Intelligence Operations
in Eastern Europe, 1945-1954

The article by Yury Totrov, a former KGB-officer from Moscow, focusses on the first strategic steps of the Western intelligence services in Eastern Europe after 1945. Totrov’s article contains valuable information on the beginning of a conflict that should later be known as the "Cold War". Totrov demonstrates how the British co-operated with the newly formed CIA and critically contemplates a secret conflict, in which western strategists underestimated their counterparts and refused to acknowledge realities on the frontline. Instead of stopping and assessing their losses, even more personnel and money was poured into what was proved to be an intelligence trap by Eastern services.