5-19-96. WaPo: "From Out Of the Shadows." Book review. Spies Without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors By Amy Knight Princeton University Press. 318 pp. $24.95 Knight suggests that Russia's new security forces are not only continuing the same kinds of skulduggery as they undertook in the past but are now also expertly manipulating public opinion in Russia and the rest of the world to obscure and disguise what they do. What Knight suggests is that the old client-master relationship between Russia's elite and the KGB has not only been reversed but may even have vanished, because these "children of the KGB" have subsumed large chunks of Russia's economy and government. If *Spies Without Cloaks* is correct, much of Russia today is little more than a mutant KGB, the communist ideology it once served now replaced by ruthless devotion to great-power politics and bottom-line capitalism. The book is worth reading for its applicability to the transformation of the US and international intelligence "communities" into free-market racketeering of espionage technologies and expertise and insider secrets -- as WaPo reported May 2 on high-tech intel patrons Perry and Deutch. RAC_ket