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The spokesperson of the Indian Congress party referred to the book as 'pure sensationalism not even remotely based on facts or records' and pointed out that the book is not based on official records from the Soviet Union.

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Advani, requested of the Government a white paper on the role of foreign intelligence agencies and a judicial enquiry on the allegations in The Mitrokhin Archive II. In India, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, L. An Italian minister said that the archive 'is not a dossier from the KGB but one about the KGB constructed by British counter-espionage agents based on the confession of an ex-agent, if there is one, and 'Mitrokhin' is just a codename for an MI5 operation.' India inquiry The Mitrokhin Commission ended in a scandal, and without evidence to tie any Italian politician. In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister at the time, established the Mitrokhin Commission in 2002 to investigate information about the KGB connections in Italy claimed in the Mitrokhin Archives. In addition, ISC thought, 'misleading stories were allowed to receive wide circulation', and the Committee found that SIS had handled neither the publication nor related media matters appropriately. SIS stated that they were clearing the UK chapters with the Home Secretary and the Attorney General, as required before publication of the book, but, the Committee found, they did not do so. He wished that he had retained 'full control over the handling of his material'. He was not content with the way the book was published, he told them, and felt he had not accomplished what he intended when writing the notes. This decision, ISC believed, was for the Law Officers to take, not the SIS. The Committee expressed concern that the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) knew the names of some spies years before the publication of the book, but took a decision, without informing the proper prosecuting authorities, not to prosecute them. Its findings, 'The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report', were presented to Parliament in June 2000. UK inquiry ДЄfter the first book (Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield, 1999) was published in the UK, an inquiry was held by the House of Commons' Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). The publication of the books prompted parliamentary inquiries in the UK, Italy, and India. Investigations after publication of the books 5 Preparations for large-scale sabotage.3.10 Support of militant organizations and terrorists.3.7 Installation and support of communist governments.3.6 Disinformation campaign against the United States.3.4 KGB operations revealed in the files.3.3 Middle Eastern figures accused of being informants or agents of the KGB.3.2 Latin American leaders accused of being informants or agents of the KGB.3.1 Prominent KGB spies named in the files.1 Investigations after publication of the books.The original handwritten notes by Vasili Mitrokhin are still classified. In July 2014, the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College released Mitrokhin's edited Russian-language notes for public research.

They also provide specifics about 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. The books purport to provide details about many of the Soviet Union's clandestine intelligence operations around the world. The official historian of MI5, Christopher Andrew, 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. His defection was not officially announced until 1999.

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When he defected to the United Kingdom in 1992, he brought the archive with him, in six full trunks. The ' Mitrokhin Archive' is a collection of handwritten notes which were secretly made by the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin during the thirty years in which he served as a KGB archivist in the foreign intelligence service and the First Chief Directorate. The KGB sword and shield emblem appears on the covers of the six published books by Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew