Yaacov Falkov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4440686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaacov Falkov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaacov |
| FAMILY NAME | Falkov |
| SIGNATURE | FALKOV Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0908-1033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“To deprive the enemy of the advantage of surprise”: Analysis as a panacea for military and intelligence failures in early Soviet intelligence theory
In the first half of the 20th century, the Soviets recognized the causal link between strategic and operational failures in the military and intelligence domains and the quality of the intelligence analysis that precedes those failures. With the aim to improve their own processing and further use of intelligence data, the Soviet special services tried various organizational and methodological solutions. For the first time in their history, they c…
“So That No Citizen Is Punished Unreasonably”: The KGB Concept of Profilaktika as a Tool for Suppressing Soviet Society, 1954–1991
Since the mid-1950s, the Soviet Committee for State Security (KGB) developed the concept of profilaktika, aimed to ideologically discipline the masses and prevent them from aligning with the “malicious West” through “gentle,” supposedly nonantagonizing modes of coercion. Based on newly discovered Soviet primary sources, this article describes the intellectual and organizational efforts of the KGB Moscow headquarters to breathe life into this soci…
Nothing anti-state was said: Jews and anti-semites in interwar Latvia through the eyes of the local security service, 1924–1940
Since its establishment in the mid-1920s, Latvia's national security service paid close attention to the country's Jewish community and its haters among local nationalists. Some Jews were considered a security threat after becoming pro-Soviet communists; others boycotted German goods and defied British anti-Zionist policy, thereby de facto damaging Latvia's foreign relations. Latvian far-right activists were deemed dangerous not only due to their…
«Турецкие коллеги сработали прекрасно!»: Тайный вклад Анкары в пресечение британцами немецко-польских дипломатических контактов в 1940-1941 гг
Историография Второй мировой войны традиционно указывает на позицию нейтралитета, которой подчеркнуто придерживалась официальная Анкара до начала 1945 г. Принято считать, что именно она позволила турецкой республике избежать втягивания в глобальный конфликт, а также захвата территории страны войсками одной из конфликтующих сторон. Обнаруженные автором статьи британские и немецкие архивные документы свидетельствуют о том, что в разведывательной сф…
“Tried and Trusted Patriots” for the CIA: Latvian Case Study of the KGB Operativnaia Igra Theory
In 1952–1957, Soviet counterintelligence launched operation METEOR in Latvia, reacquired by the USSR during World War II. Based on a wide net of double agents in the local anti-Soviet resistance, that clandestine enterprise aimed at convincing Washington to halt its intelligence and influence activities on Latvian soil. The Russian, Latvian, and Western sources have expressed varied, at times polarly opposed, assessments of METEOR’s actual effect…
Intelligence-exalting strategic cultures: A case study of the Russian approach
Since the 1920s, Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence followed a concept of an ‘unending covert war’ against the hostile international environment and cultivated a sophisticated operational theory aimed at winning that new type of conflict. Equipped with these advanced intellectual achievements, Soviet special services secured their status as the Kremlin’s principal strategic tool, exalted over the military. By drawing on new discoveries f…
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Intelligence-exalting strategic cultures: A case study of the Russian approach
Since the 1920s, Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence followed a concept of an ‘unending covert war’ against the hostile international environment and cultivated a sophisticated operational theory aimed at winning that new type of conflict. Equipped with these advanced intellectual achievements, Soviet special services secured their status as the Kremlin’s principal strategic tool, exalted over the military. By drawing on new discoveries f…
«Турецкие коллеги сработали прекрасно!»: Тайный вклад Анкары в пресечение британцами немецко-польских дипломатических контактов в 1940-1941 гг
Историография Второй мировой войны традиционно указывает на позицию нейтралитета, которой подчеркнуто придерживалась официальная Анкара до начала 1945 г. Принято считать, что именно она позволила турецкой республике избежать втягивания в глобальный конфликт, а также захвата территории страны войсками одной из конфликтующих сторон. Обнаруженные автором статьи британские и немецкие архивные документы свидетельствуют о том, что в разведывательной сф…
“Tried and Trusted Patriots” for the CIA: Latvian Case Study of the KGB Operativnaia Igra Theory
In 1952–1957, Soviet counterintelligence launched operation METEOR in Latvia, reacquired by the USSR during World War II. Based on a wide net of double agents in the local anti-Soviet resistance, that clandestine enterprise aimed at convincing Washington to halt its intelligence and influence activities on Latvian soil. The Russian, Latvian, and Western sources have expressed varied, at times polarly opposed, assessments of METEOR’s actual effect…
“So That No Citizen Is Punished Unreasonably”: The KGB Concept of Profilaktika as a Tool for Suppressing Soviet Society, 1954–1991
Since the mid-1950s, the Soviet Committee for State Security (KGB) developed the concept of profilaktika, aimed to ideologically discipline the masses and prevent them from aligning with the “malicious West” through “gentle,” supposedly nonantagonizing modes of coercion. Based on newly discovered Soviet primary sources, this article describes the intellectual and organizational efforts of the KGB Moscow headquarters to breathe life into this soci…
Nothing anti-state was said: Jews and anti-semites in interwar Latvia through the eyes of the local security service, 1924–1940
Since its establishment in the mid-1920s, Latvia's national security service paid close attention to the country's Jewish community and its haters among local nationalists. Some Jews were considered a security threat after becoming pro-Soviet communists; others boycotted German goods and defied British anti-Zionist policy, thereby de facto damaging Latvia's foreign relations. Latvian far-right activists were deemed dangerous not only due to their…
“To deprive the enemy of the advantage of surprise”: Analysis as a panacea for military and intelligence failures in early Soviet intelligence theory
In the first half of the 20th century, the Soviets recognized the causal link between strategic and operational failures in the military and intelligence domains and the quality of the intelligence analysis that precedes those failures. With the aim to improve their own processing and further use of intelligence data, the Soviet special services tried various organizational and methodological solutions. For the first time in their history, they c…
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