If you've never read them or even heard of them, I highly recommend
   them. Whether you dismiss him or think there's something worth
   listening, the Nosenko / Golitsyn permanently affair changed U.S.
   intelligence (not to mention the JFK and Watergate connections).
   New Lies For Old: [1]http://www.spiritoftruth.org/newlies4old.pdf
   The Perestroika
   Deception: [2]http://www.spiritoftruth.org/The_Perestroika_Deception.pd
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   In his book Wedge - The Secret War between the FBI and CIA (Knopf,
   1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies
   For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and
   the other 46 were 'not soon falsifiable'.
   Golitsyn was a figure of significant controversy in the Western
   intelligence community. The military writer General Sir John Hackett,
   and the former CIA counter-intelligence director James Angleton
   identified Golitsyn as "the most valuable defector ever to reach the
   West". However, the official historian for MI5, Christopher Andrew,
   described him as an "unreliable conspiracy theorist". Andrew believes
   that although intelligence data provided by Golitsyn were reliable,
   some of his global political assessments of the Soviet and KGB strategy
   are questionable.

New Lies for Old

   In 1984, Golitsyn published the book New Lies For Old, wherein he
   warned about a long-term [3]deception strategy of seeming retreat from
   hard-line Communism designed to lull the West into a false sense of
   security, and finally economically cripple and diplomatically isolate
   the [4]United States. Among other things, Golitsyn stated:

          "The "liberalization" would be spectacular and impressive.
          Formal pronouncements might be made about a reduction in the
          communist party's role: its monopoly would be apparently
          curtailed. An ostensible separation of powers between the
          legislative, the executive, and the judiciary might be
          introduced. The Supreme Soviet would be given greater apparent
          power, and the president of the Soviet Union and the first
          secretary of the party might well be separated. The KGB would be
          "reformed." Dissidents at home would be amnestied; those in
          exile abroad would be allowed to return, and some would take up
          positions of leadership in government.

          Sakharov might be included in some capacity in the government or
          allowed to teach abroad. The creative arts and cultural and
          scientific organizations, such as the writers' unions and
          Academy of Sciences, would become apparently more independent,
          as would the trade unions. Political clubs would be opened to
          nonmembers of the communist party. Leading dissidents might form
          one or more alternative political parties.

          There would be greater freedom for Soviet citizens to travel.
          Western and Unitized Nations observers would be invited to the
          Soviet Union to witness the reforms in action."

   Angleton and Golitsyn reportedly sought the assistance of [5]William F.
   Buckley, Jr. (who once worked for the CIA) in writing New Lies for Old.
   Buckley refused but later went on to write a novel about
   Angleton, Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton.

The Perestroika Deception

   In 1995 he published a book containing purported memoranda attributed
   to Golitsyn entitled The [6]Perestroika Deception which claimed:
     * "The [Soviet] strategists are concealing the secret coordination
       that exists and will continue between Moscow and the 'nationalist'
       leaders of [the] 'independent' republics."
     * "The power of the KGB remains as great as ever... Talk of cosmetic
       changes in the KGB and its supervision is deliberately publicized
       to support the myth of 'democratization' of the Soviet political
       system."
     * "Scratch these new, instant Soviet 'democrats,' 'anti-Communists,'
       and 'nationalists' who have sprouted out of nowhere, and underneath
       will be found secret Party members or KGB agents."

References

   1. http://www.spiritoftruth.org/newlies4old.pdf
   2. http://www.spiritoftruth.org/The_Perestroika_Deception.pdf
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception
   4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley,_Jr.
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika