Widows - Hardcover

Widows. Four American Spies, the Wives They Left Behind and the KGB's Crippling of Western Intelligence

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Uk Edition. Hardcover. Widows. This book tells the story of a 25-year-intelligence war with the Soviet Union that the United States lost. Unprecendented in detaul and scope, this book draws on years of research, interviews with more than 500 participants and thousands of unreleased documents. It is certain to cause repercussions worldwide as it portrays the deadly struggle between the intelligence forces of the Soviet Union and the West. For the first time, members of the intelligence community go on record about four disasters. This book reveals the first Soviet mole in the CIA and his frantic existence as he sat at the elbow of CIA director Allen Dulles while remaining fully under the control of the KGB. The author examines the implications of the real story of John Arthur Paisley, a key CIA officer who disappeared from his sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay in 1978. They also offer the first authentic account of Nicholas Feydorovich Artamonov, a dashing Soviet naval captain who defected to America in 1959, gained access to the core of the American intelligence community, and disappeared sixteen years later in Vienna while operating as a double agent for the FBI. This book reaches a stunning climax with the mysterious death f Ralph Joseph Sigler the FBI and Army Intelligence's premier double agent for a decade. This book reveals how Sigler, code-named GRAPHIC IMAGE, really died - and why, Ilse Sigler is on the one certsin widow in this book - in her case there was a real bpdu. The other two never had the satisfaction of being sure. A full portrait of the behind-the-scenes battles that destroyed careers and derailed much of Western intelligence, this is an important, fascinating and disturbing book. Illustrated. 575 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 103188

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