{"id":1128,"date":"2018-10-02T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamvasintezet.hu\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:34:03","slug":"spies-without-cloaks-the-kgbs-successors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/spies-without-cloaks-the-kgbs-successors\/","title":{"rendered":"Spies without cloaks. the KGB&#8217;s successors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<p>American writer and historian Amy Knight (PhD) is an internationally recognized expert of 20th century Russian history and politics and the author of several books and studies. She earned a PhD degree in Russian politics at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_School_of_Economics_and_Political_Science\">London School of Economics and Political Science<\/a>\u00a0(LSE) and worked at the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress\">Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0as a specialist in Russian and Soviet home and foreign affairs. She was a professor at the John Hopkins University in Washington and later at the Carlton University in Ottawa.Her book <em>Spies Without Cloaks. The KGB\u2019s Successors<\/em>, published in 1996, sheds light on the transition, survival, and afterlife of KGB in the historical and political circumstances following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKalugin, for instance, openly admitted having assisted in organizing the murder of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident back in 1978 (using a poisoned umbrella pin). Markov, married and father to young children, had not committed any crime besides escaping to Britain and openly criticizing the Bulgarian regime. (\u2026)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American writer and historian Amy Knight (PhD) is an internationally recognized expert of 20th century Russian history and politics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}