KESSLER : Moscow station (fülszöveg)
So sensational are Ronald Kessler's revelations in Moscow Station that the story seems all but incredible: the penetration by Soviet agents into the inner sanctum of America's most sensitive embassy, the Moscow Station. But relentless sleuth that he is, author Kessler demonstrates that indeed Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, other Marine guards, and their civilian colleagues were entrapped, and that the KGB did achieve its ends.
Ronald Kessler has done more than write a riveting true spy story chock-full of one dismaying disclosure after an other: as a veteran investigative reporter, he has brought to light invaluable information about the failure of America's security forces. He exposes the enormity of our official tolerance of the violation of the American embassy at the very heart of our most dangerous putative enemy What he finds are irresponsibility and rank incompetence from the highest office down, that is, from Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman himself. Furthermore, the cover-up dismissal of the events by the State Department, the military, and the CIA has compounded the danger by misleading the public.
Kessler reveals that Ambassador Hartman's own typewriter was bugged; that not only routinely classified material but also our most secret codes were stolen; and that the Soviet use of "sparrows" — female agents — to sexually entrap our Marine guards far exceeded the skimpy press reports. Kessler uncovers such overwhelming challenges to American security that President Reagan's order of October 1988 to entirely dismantle the new American embassy in Moscow now seems foreordained. To top it off, Reagan has left the project's funding and construction of a new embassy, at the cost of tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars, to the Bush Administration.
Moscow Station is a cautionary tale for the Gorbachev era, a reminder that however welcome are the Soviets' glasnost and perestroika, the price of liberty remains eternal vigilance.
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