McFarland publishers have acquired the latest book from Peter Polack entitled Encyclopedia of Soviet Spymasters to be published in 2021. The Encyclopedia is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with nearly five hundred Soviet spies expelled from over 50 countries worldwide which will resonate with the current situation in the United States and UK.

Over the years, Soviet diplomats of all ranks-from ambassadors and ministers counselor to administrative personnel such as library employees, translators, and clerks-have been accused of espionage and expelled from the foreign countries to which they had been assigned. Individuals from non-diplomatic occupations have also been expelled, including correspondents from TASS, Moscow Radio, Novosti, the newspapers Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Izvestiya , Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya, and the weekly magazine New Times; Aeroflot and Morflot officials; trade union officials; UN employees; employees of other international bodies such as the International Wheat Council, the International Cocoa Organization, the International Labor Organization, and the International Civil Aviation Organization; officials of the Moscow Narodny Bank and Soviet state companies Mashniborintorg and Elecktronorg; and Intourist representatives. Many of these individuals have been publicly identified as KGB (state security/foreign intelligence) and GRU (military intelligence) officers.

Polack expressed his satisfaction to be associated with such a prestigious publishing house and looks forward to working with the experienced editor Dylan Lightfoot.

Peter Polack is a former criminal lawyer in the Cayman Islands for several decades. His books are The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017) and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2019). He was a contributor to theEncyclopedia of Warfare (2013). Research on the Angolan book led to the first international release of Cuban casualties of the Angola War published in the Miami Herald on 20 February 2010. His article, Syria: The Evolution Revolution was published in the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine June 2014. He was a reporter for Reuters News Agency in the Cayman Islands 2014 -2019. In July 2020 McFarland publishers acquired Encyclopedia of Soviet Spymasters to be published in 2021. 

Sample:

Jamaica 1983

November 1: Four Soviet diplomats-first secretaries Viktor Adrionov and Oleg Malov, interpreter Andrey Nikoforev,and attaché Vladimir Bondarev, all identified as KGB operatives-were expelled, along with a Cuban journalist, for espionage and conspiring to murder a Jamaican foreign affairs official. Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga announced the action in a November 1 speech to Parliament in which he outlined the murderous conspiracy.. The official, a protocol officer at the Jamaican Foreign Ministry, had uncovered a series of clandestine meetings between Bondarev, Nikoforev, and another Foreign Ministry officer, Joseph Bewry. According to Seaga, the Soviets plotted to kidnap the protocol officer’s children and “confront her in a public place and stage a robbery during which she would be murdered.”