The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and “Zionist Jews”

The focus of this chapter on the details of major KGB operations against Ukrainian and Jewish nationalism as part of the KGB main strategy of fighting the main adversary, the United States after 1953. This chapter describes how, following the old Stalinist strategy of the early Cold War, the KGB used re-immigrants in Europe as their “double agents” targeting two national groups of Ukraine: the Ukrainians and Jews. These operations of the 1950s shaped the entire KGB strategical framework which survived until perestroika.