Reading here Brezhnev's speeches at internal party conferences. On one occasion (in 1973) he went into great detail about how the Soviets were lagging behind the West in high-tech exports, and were just not competitive on the international market.
Here he is complaining how the Netherlands is ahead of the USSR in foreign trade. 
Later he talks about how the Soviets are falling behind in acquiring foreign licenses (compared to countries like Japan):
Then he draws attention to a number of successful examples, including the Moscow bank in London, and "Nafta" in Belgium, which was selling Soviet oil on the Western market and allowed Moscow to earn foreign currency.
The reason that this is interesting is that if you've read Belton's book, Putin's People, you will have read about various "shell companies" that the "KGB" set up in the West to launder money in order to... well, take over the world or something to this effect.
Whereas what we see here is Brezhnev (not the "KGB") realising that the USSR was falling behind in foreign trade, that it had to purchase technologies and sell products - i.e. that it had no option but to join the global marketplace by, yes, setting up companies in the West.
Doesn't sound nearly as dramatic but has the benefit of being true.
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