Operation PANDORA
Operation PANDORA (Russian: операция Пандора) is the name used by Russian defector Vasili Mitrokhin for an alleged active measure by the KGB against the United States during the Cold War. The intention was supposedly to start a race war that would consume and self-destruct the United States.[1]
According to British intelligence historian Christopher Andrew and Mitrokhin in the publication of the Mitrokhin Archive:[2]
The KGB ordered the use of explosives to exacerbate racial tensions in New York City. On July 25, 1971, the head of the KGB's FCD First (North American) Department, Anatoli Tikhonovich Kireyev, instructed the New York residency to proceed with the operation. The KGB was to plant a delayed-action explosive package in "the Negro section of New York." Kireyev's preferred target was "one of the Negro colleges." After the explosion the residency was ordered to make anonymous telephone calls to two or three black organizations, claiming that the explosion was the work of the Jewish Defense League.
Background
[edit]Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin was a former KGB archivist who defected from the Soviet Union to the United Kingdom in 1992. As part of his defection, Mitrokhin helped smuggle vast quantities of confidential KGB information into the UK. This collection of documents was subsequently compiled and ultimately became known as the Mitrokhin Archive.[3]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Paul Ratner. (10 February 2019). Top 5 KGB operations on U.S. soil
- ^ Andrew, Christopher (2001). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00312-5.
- ^ "Mitrokhin Archive | Wilson Center Digital Archive". digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
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