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54by Shaun Whiteside, Ming WuISBN 0434012947 (0-434-01294-7)
Softcover, William Heinemann
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› Find signed collectible books: '54'Book summary:1954, the height of the Cold War. In Hollywood memebers of Her Majesty's Secret service have a dangerous mission for the elegant Cary Grant. And in Bologna, Pierre Capponi, a lovelorn young barman, is about to embark on a painful odyssey in search of his missing father. [via]
54by Wu MingISBN 8497938135 (84-9793-813-5)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Alexander Orlov: The Fbi's KGB Generalby Edward P. GazurISBN 0786709715 (0-7867-0971-5)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander Orlov: The Fbi's KGB General'Book summary:Executions, kidnappings, the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the plunder of gold from the Spanish treasury, Joseph Stalin's "terrible secret"historical events and classified matters like these are cast in startling new light by KGB General Alexander Orlov, the subject of this riveting and unprecedented memoir by FBI Special Agent Edward Gazur. A veteran in East European counterespionage investigations, Gazur was the final agent assigned to one of the FBI's most fascinating cases when in 1971 he met the highest-ranking KGB defector of all time, General Orlov. Gazur not only debriefed Orlov, he also befriended him, becoming Orlov's literary executor and the sole possessor of his uncensored memoir "The March of Time." Over the course of their sessions, Gazur learned the story of Orlov's spectacular disappearance from Soviet intelligence at the height of the Spanish Civil War and the astonishing range of information he had amassed about his superiors. In 1938 Orlov fled to the United States and lived undercover for fifteen years, hiding from both the KGB and the FBI. In 1953, he came in from the Cold War with a treasure of revelations in his FBI debriefings and later in his bestselling book The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes and a special issue of LIFE magazine. Orlov, however, left other, deeper secrets for his own memoir, which Gazur reveals here for the first time. Although the FBI forbids its counterintelligence experts to write memoirs, Secret Assignment provides an authentic account not only of Stalin's brutal regime and KGB operations in the Cold War and FBI's campaign to uncover vital intelligence, but also the life and mysterious death of the agent even Stalin feared. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs add to this never-before-revealed story.[via]More editions of Alexander Orlov: The Fbi's KGB General:
Battleground Berlin: CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold Warby George Bailey, David E. Murphy, Sergei A. KondrashevISBN 0300078714 (0-300-07871-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Beria Papersby Alan WilliamsISBN 0671215892 (0-671-21589-2)
Hardcover, Simon and Schuster
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Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenantby Amy KnightISBN 0691010935 (0-691-01093-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Betrayal : The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spyby Tim Weiner, David Johnston, Neil A. LewisISBN 067944050X (0-679-44050-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayal : The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy'Book summary:Aldrich Ames, according to this account by a team of New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.
Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley. [via]
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The Charm Schoolby Nelson DemilleISBN 0446353205 (0-446-35320-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Charm School'Book summary:#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion. [via]
Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spyby John Costello, Oleg TsarevISBN 0517588501 (0-517-58850-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Escape from the CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important KGB Spy Ever to Defect to the U.Sby Ronald KesslerISBN 0671726641 (0-671-72664-1)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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FBI - KGB War: A Special Agent's Storyby Robert J. LamphereISBN 0865544778 (0-86554-477-8)
Softcover, Mercer University Press
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The FBI-KGB Warby Thomas Schactman, Robert J. LamphereISBN 0425103382 (0-425-10338-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Fbi-KGB Warby Tom Shachtman, Robert J. LamphereISBN 0394541510 (0-394-54151-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Fear No Evilby Anatoly ShcharanskyISBN 0679725423 (0-679-72542-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear No Evil'Book summary:Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of uswhich makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant.[via]
Since Fear No Evil was originally published in 1988, the Soviet government that imprisoned Sharansky has collapsed. Sharansky has become an important national leader in Israeland serves as Israel's diplomatic liaison to the former Soviet Union! New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Serge Schmemann reflects on those monumental events, and on Sharansky's extraordinary life in the decades since his arrest, in a new introduction to this edition. But the truths Sharansky learned in his jail cell and sets forth in this book have timeless importance so long as rulers anywhere on earth still supress their own peoples. For anyone with an interest in human rightsand anyone with an appreciation for the resilience of the human spirithe illuminates the weapons with which the powerless can humble the powerful: physical courage, an untiring sense of humor, a bountiful imagination, and the conviction that "Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself."More editions of Fear No Evil:
Fear No Evilby Nathan SharanskyISBN 0394558782 (0-394-55878-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the Westby Oleg Kalugin, Fen MontaigneISBN 0312114265 (0-312-11426-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Ghostwrittenby David MitchellISBN 0375724508 (0-375-72450-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghostwritten'Book summary:"What is real and what is not?" David Mitchell's Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts plays with precisely this question throughout its elaborately compartmentalized narrative. (That there are 10 chapters in this 9-part invention is just one more aspect of the author's mysterious schema.) With its multitude of voices and globe-girdling locations--Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Petersburg, London--this first novel offers readers a vertiginous, sometimes seductive, display of persona and place.
At the heart of Mitchell's book is the global extension of the postmodern city, and the networks (cultural, technological, phantasmagoric) to which it gives rise. A metropolis like Tokyo is quite literally beyond our comprehension:
Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It's so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It's long since filled up the plain, and now it's creeping up the mountains to the west and reclaiming land from the bay in the east. The city never stops rewriting itself. In the time one street guide is produced, it's already become out of date. It's a tall city, and a deep one, as well as a spread-out one.
At this level, urban sprawl becomes an epistemological condition. On one hand it leads to a Japanese death cult, purging the "unclean" from the city's subway with nerve gas. And on the other, it produces a certain splintering of the human personality. "I'm this person, I'm this person, I'm that person, I'm that person too," chants Neal, the narrator of the book's second part. "No wonder it's all such a ... mess." He's talking about his life as a Hong Kong trader, a "man of departments, compartments, apartments." But he might also be describing the experience of reading Ghostwritten. At once loquacious and knowing, leisurely and frantic, Mitchell offers a huge, but fragmentary, portmanteau. And while he's labored diligently to solder together the many parts--the aching bodies, the reality police, the impossibly complex machinery of contemporary life--his novel, too, may suffer from an excess of split personality. --Vicky Lebeau [via] 
Gorky Park: A Novelby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0345298349 (0-345-29834-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorky Park: A Novel'Book summary:Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind.
The New Yorker
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.
Once one gets going, one doesnt want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence.
The Washington Post
Reminds you just how satisfying a smoothly turned thriller can be. The New York Times Book Review
An unbelievable achievement . . . vivid, witty . . . completely fascinating.
Boston Herald American
Gripping, romantic, and dazzlingly original.
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Gorky Park: ISBN 0394517482 (0-394-51748-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Gorky Park: A Novel: ISBN 081613295X (0-8161-3295-X)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall - Gorky Park: A Novel: ISBN 0345298349 (0-345-29834-9)
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Inside the CIAby Ronald KesslerISBN 067173458X (0-671-73458-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Intrepid's Last Caseby William Stevenson, Richard RohmerISBN 1585745219 (1-58574-521-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Press, The
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Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide best-seller A Man Called Intrepid.
Sir William Stephenson still stood at the center of events when he and author William Stevenson discussed in the 1980s an investigation into sudden allegations that Intrepid's wartime aide, Dick Ellis, has been both a Soviet mole and a Nazi spy. They concluded that the rumors grew, ironically, from Intrepid's last wartime case involving the first major Soviet intelligence defector of the new atomic age: Igor Gouzenko. Intrepid saved Gouzenko and found him sanctuary inside a Canadian spy school, Camp X. Gouzenko was about to make more devastating disclosures than those concerning atomic espionage when the case was mysteriously terminated and Intrepid's organization dissolved.
Unraveling the implications of Gouzenko's defection and Intrepid's removal from the case, tracing the steps of Dick Ellis and disclosing much new information regarding United States and Canadian postwar intelligence activities, Intrepid's Last Case is a story that for sheer excitement rivals the best spy fiction-and is all the more important because every word is true.
Filled with never-before-revealed facts on the Soviet-Western nuclear war dance and a compelling portrayal of the mind of a professional spy, Intrepid's Last Case picks up where the first book ended, at the very roots of the cold war. It describes one of the most widespread cover-ups and bizarre betrayals in intelligence history.More editions of Intrepid's Last Case:
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Intrepid's Last Case: ISBN 0394534301 (0-394-53430-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Intrepid's Last Case: ISBN 0395534801 (0-395-53480-1)
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KGB Alpha Team Training Manual: How the Soviets Trained for Personal Combat, Assassination, and SubversionISBN 0873647068 (0-87364-706-8)
Softcover, Paladin Pr
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The KGB Bar Book of Poemsby David Lehman, Star BlackISBN 0688171095 (0-688-17109-5)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The KGB Bar Book of Poems'Book summary:Started in 1997 by poets David Lehman and Star Black, the KGB Bar poetry series is widely recognized as the hottest and perhaps the best reading series in New York. Located in the hip East Village KGB Bar, these Monday-night readings boast a fantastic variety and quality of internationally known poets from Charles Simic, Molly Peacock, and Katha Pollit to Marie Howe, Mark Strand, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Now Lehman and Black have gathered work from the first three seasons into a wonderful anthology. Together with a generous supply of photographs and anecdotes from contributors on the most memorable thing ever to happen to them at a poetry reading, this unique book of poems reflects the amazing variety and energy of poetry today.
The poems range in style from Douglas. Crase's "Astropastoral" ("I have seen you on every horizon, how you are stored/And encouraged and brought to the brim/Until the round bounds of one planet could not hold you in") to Anne Porter's "Five Wishes." Offering a wide window into contemporary poetry, The KGB Bar Book of Poems debunks the myth of poetry's ivory tower to reveal the kind of raw, candid reading experience that truly brings poetry to life.
"The pre-Russian revolutionary locale gives the gathering a committed, not to say conspiratorial air, and it somehow manages to foster a true sense of camaraderie, experimentation, and open exchange between readers and audience. I've seldom enjoyed an evening of poetry and friendship more."--Jonathan Galassi (President of The Academy of American Poets), the KGB Bar poetry seriesEvery Monday night, the KGB Bar's poetry readings are packed to overflowing. Pulitzer Prize winners bum cigarettes from grad students and martini glasses are refilled between readings, while the best poets in the country share their latest work with a rapt audience.
The KGB Bar is the sexiest and arguably the best venue for poetry in New York City, and now The KGB Bar Book of Poems brings this hot literary series to the page. Icons like John Ashbery and Charles Wright appear here with other favorites such as Molly Peacock and Katha Pollitt. Many of the poets have also written anecdotes about their own most memorable poetry readings.
With dynamic black-and-white photographs throughout, The KGB Bar Book of Poems reflects the dazzling variety and tremendous energy of poetry today. [via]
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KGB: The Eyes of Russiaby Harry RositzkeISBN 0385153902 (0-385-15390-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachevby Christopher Andrew, Oleg GordievskyISBN 0060921099 (0-06-092109-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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KGB:the Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agentsby John BarronISBN 0883490099 (0-88349-009-9)
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KGB Today: The Hidden Handby John BarronISBN 0425104087 (0-425-10408-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the Fbi's Pursuit & Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spyby Peter MaasISBN 0446519731 (0-446-51973-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the Fbi's Pursuit & Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy'Book summary:In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames cold-bloodedly sent a dozen of the U.S.'s best double agents to their deaths, betraying them to the Soviets for $2 million. Now, America's premier true crime author exposes how the FBI finally caught up with this perfidious traitor after he managed to slip through the CIA's own censors for eight years. Photos. [via]
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The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGBby Milton Bearden, James RisenISBN 0345472500 (0-345-47250-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Main Enemy: The Inside Story Of The Cia's Final Showdown With The Kgb'Book summary:A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.
Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of Moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, but the action centers on Washington, starting in the infamous "Year of the Spy"--when, one by one, the CIAs agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man.
Behind the scenes with the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, and why. Bearden was called back to Washington after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Divisionjust in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
Laced with startling revelations--about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, double and triple agents, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, and the fateful autumn of 1989--The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best. [via]More editions of The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB:
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A Matter Of Honorby Jeffrey ArcherISBN 0312933541 (0-312-93354-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter Of Honor'Book summary:A letter bequeathed by a disgraced British colonel to his only son, Adam, sets in motion a deadly chain of events involving the KGB, the CIA, and the terrible secret that Adam is carrying. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the Worldby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0713999063 (0-7139-9906-3)
Softcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World'Book summary:In 1992, MI6 exfiltrated Vasili Mitrokhin, the most senior activist in the KGB, who had been responsible for running the KGB archives. He had noted thousands of documents, described by the FBI as the greatest single cache of intelligence ever received by the West.' This archive resulted in many prosecutions, some of which are still ongoing. After his defection, Mitrokhin teamed up with Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and the world's leading intelligence scholar. Their first volume, The KGB in Europe and the West, revealed the extent of KGB penetration of what they called The Main Adversary and the existence of a previously unknown nuclear spy, Melita Norwood. The second volume, The KGB and the World, continues the revelations from the sublime to the absurd - which Third World leaders were in the pay of the KGB, precisely how extensive KGB penetration of foreign governments was, and how KGB agents were instructed to assess the spread of the influence of rival Chinese communism (by going round African capitals trying to count the changing number of posters of Mao Tse-tung in shops and public buildings...) [via]
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Mystic Rebelby Ryder SyvertsenISBN 1558171045 (1-55817-104-5)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Millionby David WiseISBN 0060927313 (0-06-092731-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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On the Wrong Side: My Life in the KGBby Stan LevchenkoISBN 008034478X (0-08-034478-X)
Hardcover, Potomac Books Inc
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The Parsifal Mosaicby Robert LudlumISBN 0553252704 (0-553-25270-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Parsifal Mosaic'Book summary:Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fistParsifal. [via]
Red Squareby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 1560548886 (1-56054-888-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Ride a Pale Horseby Helen MacInnesISBN 0449207269 (0-449-20726-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Secret Servant: My Life With the KGB and the Soviet Eliteby Ilya DzhirkvelovISBN 0671682997 (0-671-68299-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness-A Soviet Spymasterby Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schecter, Leona SchecterISBN 0316821152 (0-316-82115-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities-- and the rulers who ordered them-- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation.
"Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire. [via]More editions of Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness-A Soviet Spymaster:
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officerby Victor Cherkashin, Gregory FeiferISBN 0465009689 (0-465-00968-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Amesby Victor Cherkashin, Gregory FeiferISBN 0465009697 (0-465-00969-7)
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The Spy in the Russian Clubby Ronald KesslerISBN 0671738909 (0-671-73890-9)
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A Spy in the Russian Club: How Glenn Souther Stole Americas Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscowby Ronald KesslerISBN 0684191164 (0-684-19116-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sword and the Shieldby Christopher Andrew, Vasill MitrohhinISBN 0465003125 (0-465-00312-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword and the Shield'Book summary:In early 1992, a Russian man walked into the British embassy in a newly independent Baltic republic and asked to "speak to someone in authority." As he sipped his first cup of proper English tea, he handed over a small file of notes. Eight months later, the man, his family, and his enormous archive had been safely exfiltrated to Britain. When news that a KGB officer had defected with the names of hundreds of undercover agents leaked out in 1996, a spokesperson for the SVR (Russia's foreign intelligence service, heir of the KGB) said, "Hundreds of people! That just doesn't happen! Any defector could get the name of one, two, perhaps three agents--but not hundreds!"
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGBby Christopher M. Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0465003109 (0-465-00310-9)
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Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin worked as chief archivist for the FCD, the foreign-intelligence arm of the KGB. Mitrokhin was responsible for checking and sealing approximately 300,000 files, allowing him unrestricted access to one of the world's most closely guarded archives. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. Faced with tough choices--stay silent, resign, or undermine the system from within--Mitrokhin decided to compile a record of the foreign operations of the KGB. Every day for 12 years, he smuggled notes out of the archive. He started by hiding scraps of paper covered with miniscule handwriting in his shoes, but later wrote notes on ordinary office paper, which he took home in his pockets. He hid the notes under his mattress, and on weekends took them to his dacha, where he typed them and hid them in containers buried under the floor. When he escaped to Britain, his archive contained tens of thousands of pages of notes.
In 1995, Mitrokhin, by then a British citizen, contacted Christopher Andrew (For the President's Eyes Only), head of the faculty of history at Cambridge University and one of the world's foremost historians of international intelligence. Andrew was allowed to examine the archive Mitrokhin created "to ensure that the truth was not forgotten, that posterity might some day come to know of it." The Sword and the Shield is the earthshaking result. The book details the KGB's foreign-intelligence operations, most notably those aimed at Great Britain and the "Main Adversary"--the United States. In the 700-page book, Andrew reveals operations aimed at discrediting high-profile Americans, from Martin Luther King to Ronald Reagan; secret arms caches still hidden--and boobytrapped--throughout the West; disinformation efforts, including forging a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to implicate the CIA in the assassination of JFK; attempts to stir up racial tensions in the U.S. by sending hate mail and even bombs; and the existence of deep-cover agents in North America and Europe--some of whom were effectively "outed" when the book was published.
Mitrokhin's detailed notes are well served by Andrew, who writes forcefully and clearly. The Sword and the Shield represents a remarkable intelligence coup--one that will have serious repercussions for years to come. As Andrew notes, "No one who spied for the Soviet Union at any period between the October Revolution and the eve of the Gorbachev era can now be confident that his or her secrets are still secure." --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crimeby Claire SterlingISBN 0671749978 (0-671-74997-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Touch the Devilby Jack Higgins, Bill GroseISBN 0671676202 (0-671-67620-2)
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Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thrillerby Victor SheymovISBN 1557507643 (1-55750-764-3)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Traitor's Kissby Gerald SeymourISBN 1585676330 (1-58567-633-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Washington Station: My Life As a KGB Spy in Americaby Yuri B. Shvets, Eugene OstrovskyISBN 0671883976 (0-671-88397-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mysteryby Amy W. KnightISBN 0809097036 (0-8090-9703-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Wilderness of Mirrorsby David C. MartinISBN 0345296362 (0-345-29636-2)
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World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third Worldby Christopher Andrew, Vasili MitrokhinISBN 0465003133 (0-465-00313-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World'Book summary:In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever achieved from any source. Renowned historian Christopher Andrew had exclusive access to both Mitrokhin and his archive. In 1999, they published the explosive bestseller The Sword and the Shield, which provided a complete account of KGB operations in Europe and America. In The World Was Going Our Way, Andrew now chronicles the KGBs extensive penetration of governments throughout the Third World-the battlefield on which the U.S.S.R. sought to achieve global supremacy. Andrews definitive account fundamentally revises the history of the Cold War, and sheds new light on the state of the world today. The KGB worked tirelessly for decades to foster anti-Americanism in the developing world, making this book essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the intractable hostility America faces in the ongoing war on terror.[via]More editions of World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World:
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54by Ming WuISBN 8806162039 (88-06-16203-9)
Hardcover, Einaudi
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Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Centuryby Constantine FitzgibbonISBN 0812819373 (0-8128-1937-3)
Hardcover, Stein & Day Pub
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Izbavlenie Ot KGBby V. V. BakatinISBN 5702007212 (5-7020-0721-2)
Hardcover, Novosti
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