Bugün öğrendim ki: Çok gizli dosyalar üzerine el yazısıyla yazılmış çok sayıda not tutan bir KGB arşivcisi olan Vasili Mitrokhin'in. 1992'de İngiliz İstihbaratına sığındığında, Soğuk Savaş sırasında Batı'daki KGB faaliyetlerinin çoğunu açığa çıkaran altı sandık not getirdi.
The " **Mitrokhin Archive** " is a collection of handwritten notes which were secretly made by the [KGB](/wiki/KGB "KGB") archivist [Vasili Mitrokhin](/wiki/Vasili_Mitrokhin "Vasili Mitrokhin") during the thirty years in which he served as a KGB archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the [First Chief Directorate](/wiki/First_Chief_Directorate "First Chief Directorate"). When he [defected](/wiki/Defected "Defected") to the United Kingdom in 1992, he brought the archive with him, in six full trunks. His defection was not officially announced until 1999.[1] The official historian of [MI5](/wiki/MI5 "MI5"), [Christopher Andrew](/wiki/Christopher_Andrew_\(historian\) "Christopher Andrew \(historian\)"),[2] wrote two books, _The Sword and the Shield_ (1999) and _The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World_ (2005), based on material in the archives. The books purport to provide details about many of the [Soviet Union](/wiki/Soviet_Union "Soviet Union")'s clandestine intelligence operations around the world. They also provide specifics about [Guy Burgess](/wiki/Guy_Burgess "Guy Burgess"), a British diplomat with a short career in MI6, said to be frequently under the influence of alcohol; the archive indicates that he gave the KGB at least 389 top secret documents in the first six months of 1945 along with a further 168 in December 1949.[3] In July 2014, the Churchill Archives Center at [Churchill College](/wiki/Churchill_College "Churchill College") released Mitrokhin's edited Russian-language notes for public research.[4] The original handwritten notes by Vasili Mitrokhin are still classified.[5]