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100 1 Russo, Gus,|eauthor.
245 10 Best of enemies :|bthe last great spy story of the Cold
War /|cGus Russo and Eric Dezenhall.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bTwelve,|c2018.
264 4 |c©2018
300 vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-321) and
index.
505 0 Apprentice spies -- All roads lead to Washington --
Contact -- Musketeers -- The IOC -- The quisling -- Softly,
softly, catchee monkey -- Havana takedown -- Sasha -- An
old enemy -- A second reunion -- Going public -- A heavy
box of caviar -- Calm before the storm -- You don't know
me -- The Gulag redux -- Rest: the red button -- End
games.
520 "The story of two Cold War spies - CIA agent Jack Platt
and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko - and their improbable
friendship at a time when they should have been anything
but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent
Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC
intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's
counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet
Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within
their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the
other into betraying his country in the urgent final days
of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the
best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship
that never should have happened, and their story is chock
full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings,
bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark
intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century. In
BEST OF ENEMIES, two espionage cowboys reveal how they
became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of
the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century,
including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert
Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet
imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life
role in helping Gennady stay alive during his
incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of
spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the
distinctions between the Russian and American methods of
conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new
Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll
back to the ideals of the old USSR."--Provided by
publisher.
600 10 Platt, Jack,|d1936-2017.
600 10 Vasilenko, Gennady,|d1941-
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xOfficials and
employees|vBiography.
610 10 Soviet Union.|bKomitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
|xOfficials and employees|vBiography.
650 0 Spies|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Spies|zSoviet Union|vBiography.
650 0 Spies|zRussia (Federation)|vBiography.
650 0 Espionage|zUnited States|xHistory.
650 0 Espionage|zSoviet Union|xHistory.
650 0 Male friendship.
650 7 Employees.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00909111
650 7 Espionage.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00915379
650 7 Male friendship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01006633
650 7 Spies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01129772
651 7 Russia (Federation)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01262050
651 7 Soviet Union.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210281
651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 Dezenhall, Eric,|eauthor.
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