The Mitrokhin Archive: a KGB archivist’s notes leave Russia
Verified: Documented in primary records or confirmed by reputable inquiry/reporting.
Vasili Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who made notes from KGB files. The Churchill Archives Centre states that SIS exfiltrated Mitrokhin, his family and his notes in 1992, and that the papers opened to researchers in 2014.
Documented
The Churchill Archives Centre holds and catalogues the papers and states the 1992 exfiltration by SIS.
Claimed, disputed or not established
The notes are one archivist’s copies and summaries. Individual allegations inside them are not independently verified by this site.
Sources (opened in a new tab)
- Churchill Archives Centre: The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin ↗https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/collections/mitrokhin/
Connected
- Section: Russia and the USSR
- Agencies: SIS / MI6, KGB
- Vault documents: The Papers of Vasiliy Mitrokhin ↗
- Case board · Timeline (1992) · Document vault