Yakovlev, Nikolai. CIA Target -- The USSR. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984. 263 pages.

Nikolai Yakovlev is a well-known Soviet historian with over twenty books to his credit, which have sold a total of over five million copies. A number of these have been on U.S. history, including biographies of George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and one tantalizingly titled "They Overstepped the Line" about John and Robert Kennedy. Yakovlev began as an expert on the U.S. at the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1959, but in recent years has concentrated his attention on Soviet history.

"CIA Target -- The USSR" is a stylized, polemical history of the U.S. intelligence community's activities against the Soviet Union, beginning with the OSS at the end of World War II, the co-option of the U.S. academic community in the 1950s, and continuing through the CIA's use of Soviet exiles and dissidents. American sources are used throughout the book. Yakovlev makes the case that the U.S. is engaged in far-reaching, persistent psychological warfare against the USSR. "The CIA's strategic objective in this campaign remains the undermining of the Soviet system, and the ultimate goal, although no longer put in so many words, is its overthrow."
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