Amy Knight is Senior Research Analyst at the Library of Congress and Professorial Lecturer in Russian History and Politics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. She is the author of The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union and Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant (Princeton).

"Most of the work of the KGB's successors is, inevitably, shrouded in official secrecy. Spies Without Cloaks is, however, an essential guide to what is so far known about them."---Christopher Andrew, Sunday Telegraph --- "As a close analysis of the situation and what it portends for human rights and the possible renewal of Russian expansionism, Knight's volume will acutely interest close followers of Russian politics." --- "This is easily the best book on the former KGB to appear since the end of the cold war. Knight is a formidable researcher with an excellent reputation."---James Adams, The Sunday Times --- "Amy Knight's important new study . . . the prognosis for democracy in Russia . . . isn't good. . . . Her account . . . is the most impressive and thorough we have."---Joseph Finder, The New York Times Book Review --- "Persuasive evidence that Boris Yeltsin, since becoming president of Russia, may have found the KGB far too useful an organization to have tried seriously to constrain it. . . .the most scholarly and dispassionate assessment yet available of a question critical to the future of Russia." --- "What is documented by Amy Knight's meticulous study. . . is that `free Russia' is even more of a fiction than most of us might have supposed. . . . the KGB's heirs appear now to be even more vigorous than was their parent."---Anthony Olcott, Washington Post Book World --- "A careful, detailed and grimly pessimistic account of the fate of the KGB since the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991. Despite changes of name, organization, and personnel, Knight contends that, in the absence of solid democratic traditions, the essence of the KGB continues as before."---Leonard Bushkoff, The Christian Science Monitor --- "This is easily the best book on the former KGB to appear since the end of the cold war. Knight is a formidable researcher with an excellent reputation, which this work . . . does everything to confirm. For those who believe the Russian bear has been slain, this is a welcome reality check."---James Adams, The (London) Sunday Times