Kevin P. Riehle
Associate Professor, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Mississippi
Kevin P. Riehle is an associate professor at the University of Mississippi's Center for Intelligence and Security Studies. He spent more than thirty years in the United States government as a counterintelligence analyst studying foreign intelligence services, finishing that career as an associate professor of strategic intelligence at the National Intelligence University. He has also been a faculty member of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies.
He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, an MS in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College, and a BA in Russian and Political Science from Brigham Young University.
His research focuses on the history of Soviet and Eastern Bloc intelligence services, and on what defectors from those services revealed about them. Compiling the sources behind this database meant working across primary material in English, Russian, French, German, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
Books
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Soviet Defectors: Revelations of Renegade Intelligence Officers, 1924–1954
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
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Russian Intelligence: A Case-Based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present
National Intelligence Press, 2022
Journals
Articles have appeared in Intelligence and National Security, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Cold War History and Journal of Intelligence History.
This database
Kevin P. Riehle researches the history of Soviet and Eastern Bloc intelligence services. This database collects his research on the intelligence and state security officers who defected from the Soviet Union. It currently records 121 officers. Browse the full index or read how it was compiled.