Ebook: Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
Author: Bagley Tennent H
- Tags: Espionage American, Espionage American--Soviet Union, Intelligence officers, Intelligence officers--Soviet Union, Intelligence officers--United States, Intelligence service, Intelligence service--Soviet Union--History, Biographies, History, Electronic books, Espionage American -- Soviet Union, Intelligence officers -- Soviet Union -- Biography, Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography, Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History, Soviet Union, United States
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: Soviet Union;United States
- Language: English
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Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the year for 2007. In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenkos 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than forty years: was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswalds stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception?As supervisor of CIA operations against the KGB at the time, Tennent H. Bagley directly handled Nosenkos case. This insider knowledge, combined with information gleaned from dozens of interviews with former KGB adversaries, places Bagley in a uniquely authoritative position. He guides the reader step by step through the complicated operations surrounding the Nosenko affair and shatters the comfortable version of events the CIA has presented to the public. Bagley unveils not only the KGBs history of merciless and bloody betrayals but also the existence of undiscovered traitors in the American camp. Shining new light on the CIA-KGB spy wars, he invites deeper thinking about the history of espionage and its implications for the intelligence community today.