For a quarter of a century the KGB believed that the Third World was the arena in which it could win the Cold War. "The world", claimed Moscow, "was going our way". This book discloses the KGB's secret contacts with a series of world leaders, among them Castro, Allende, Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Mengistu, as well as with terrorist hijackers and communist parties around the globe. It also shows the enormous resources devoted, with varying degrees of success, to trying to determine the course of ...