Anatoliy Golitsyn. The author, once a top KGB officer within the Soviet politburo on "disinformation"-the dissemination of false information through mainstream western media-wrote this book in 1984, one year before Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. This riveting work is a terrifying account of how top Communist leaders long ago planned the current "opening" to the West, the "collapse" of Communism, the new "Democracy" and "restructuring" of the Soviet economy, the incorporation of Eastern bloc nations into the European Common Market, the planned merger of the two Germanies, and even the fall of the Berlin Wall. Accurately portrays, almost to the last detail, the historic events currently reshaping the map of Europe. What gives Golitsyn's work its eerie, frightening quality is that he foretells the so-called "peace dividend" that the Soviet Union will realize from all these "changes" when a new European-Soviet coalition will make "a massive U.S. defense budget no longer justified" and NATO no longer necessary. Bristles with authentic details only an insider could muster. This 1984 publication is now a collector's item and is currently being offered in a limited edition. A masterpiece of political intrigue! Sets straight the lies now being told everyday to our news. 430 pp. PB. ITEM #10908 $24.00