Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
viii, 358 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-343) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: 19 May 1985 -- The KGB -- Uncle Gormsson -- SUNBEAM -- Green ink and microfilm -- A plastic bag and a Mars bar -- Agent BOOT -- The safe house -- Operation RYAN -- Koba -- Mr Collins and Mrs Thatcher -- Russian roulette -- Cat and mouse -- The dry cleaner -- The runner -- Finlandia -- Passport for Pimlico -- Code names and aliases -- Acknowledgements. |
Summary |
Traces the story of Russian intelligence operative Oleg Gordievsky, revealing how his secret work as an undercover MI6 informant helped hasten the end of the Cold War. |
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The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, Oleg Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. The CIA officer assigned to identify him was Aldrich Ames, who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. -- adapted from jacket. |
Subject |
Gordievsky, Oleg.
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Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History.
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Gordievsky, Oleg. (OCoLC)fst00271668
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Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti. (OCoLC)fst00515555
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Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
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Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Cold War -- Biography.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Intelligence & Espionage.
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Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
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Spies. (OCoLC)fst01129772
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Title |
Greatest espionage story of the Cold War |
Other Form: |
Online version: Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author. Spy and the traitor New York : Viking, [2018] 9781101904206 (DLC) 2018026376 |
ISBN |
9781101904190 (hardcover) |
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1101904194 (hardcover) |
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9781101904213 (trade paperback) |
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1101904216 (trade paperback) |
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