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Returning To A Watched Home
- Oleg Gordievsky felt immediate, physical paranoia returning to Moscow after a trip and found an unfamiliar third lock on his door.
- That discovery convinced him the KGB had been inside his flat and triggered his fear of imminent danger.
KGB As Total State Surveillance
- The KGB combined foreign intelligence and internal policing into one omnipresent agency that shaped everyday Soviet life.
- That fusion made surveillance and fear a routine part of society, unlike Western intelligence structures.
School 101 Training And Tradecraft
- Oleg trained at a secret KGB academy nicknamed School 101 where he learned surveillance detection and dry-cleaning techniques.
- Training included rigorous tradecraft like brush contacts, dead drops, codes, microdots, and loyalty indoctrination.