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Dr. Elena Morozova knew the official story by heart. In 1992, a weary KGB archivist named Vasili Mitrokhin walked into the British embassy in Riga carrying six suitcases of handwritten notes. He had spent twelve years smuggling carbon copies of top-secret Soviet intelligence files out of the basement of the Foreign Intelligence headquarters in Yasenevo. His "archive" revealed spy rings, illegal agents (illegals), and sabotage plans across the West. The official version ended there: the British exfiltrated him, the files went to Churchill College, and the world got a bestseller. To find the “top” copy on generalist file-sharing