KESSLER : Spy vs. spy (fülszöveg)
Steeped in knowledge of the FBI for over twenty years, Ronald Kessler now writes the first inside account of how the FBI actually catches Soviet spies. He also is the first Western writer to interview an active Soviet bloc spy, KGB agent Karl Koecher, whom Kessler catches up with in Czechoslovakia, after Koecher is exchanged for noted Russian dissident Natan Sharansky. Kessler has the knack of earning the trust and candor of the American and Soviet counterintelligence professionals, so his account is revelatory: He describes the relentless round-the-clock mutual surveillance between warring agents, how they tail each other, their ingenious ploys, how the KGB infiltrated our CIA, the dynamics of the "drop," spy recruitment and the creation of double agents, why spies choose their dangerous careers, the bars they frequent, even the sex parties they attend to develop contacts.
Spy vs. Spy also discloses serious security breaches by the National Security Agency as well as the CIA and gives new details about recent spies Pollard, Pelton, and the Walkers. For all its frequent humor and disclosures of misses and near misses, Spy vs. Spy unmistakably demonstrates that espionage is serious business. Soviet spies have cost us dearly, in compromising the secret communications of our embassies, disclosing how our spy space satellites work and the codes that operate our nuclear subs as well as crucial details on our submarines' designs for silence.
Spy vs. Spy is must reading for not only spy buffs but all concerned with America's foreign relations and its own national security.
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