Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Name: Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
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ISBN: 9780300136241

ISBN-10: 0300136242

ISBN-13: 9780300136241

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tennent H. Bagley

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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 Nosenko's 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 Oswald's 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Defector Like No Other



Walk-in



Getting Under Way



A Visit to Headquarters



En Route



New Job, Under Clouds



Bombshell



Popov's Ghost



Defection



Impasse



Deadly Games



"Guiding Principle"



Deceiving in Wartime



Postwar Games



Symbiosis: Moles and Games



Hidden Moles



Dead Drop



Code Clerks



Connections



Confrontation



Crunch Time



Face-off



Too Hot to Handle



Head in the Sand



Lingering Debate



Late Light



Hiding a Mole, KGB-Style



The Other Side of the Moon



Boomerang



A KGB Veteran's View of Nosenko



A Myth and Its Making



Self-deception-Bane of Counterintelligence



Glossary


Notes


Index