WISE : The spy who got away (fülszöveg)
The Spy Who Got Away is the sensational story of Edward Lee Howard, the first CIA defector to the Soviet Union.
David Wise has not only penetrated the CIA's handling of the case but, incredibly, was able to make contact with the escaped spy and met secretly with Howard for six days in Budapest — the first time in the history of the cold war that a defector from an intelligence agency has been interviewed by a writer from the West.
Trained by the CIA to be a spy in the Soviet capital, then fired when he failed a lie detector test, Howard sold the agency's most sensitive information — the secrets of the CIA's Moscow operation — to the KGB and slipped through the net drawn around him by the FBI. He vanished into the New Mexico desert and surfaced a year later in the Soviet Union.
How did he escape? How and where does Howard live now in Moscow? What sort of life does he have? Who is his powerful protector in the KGB?
The Spy Who Got Away not only answers these questions but reveals:
• Howard had $150,000 in a secret Swiss bank account, the FBI was told, and hid $10,000 in buried treasure — gold, silver bars, and currency — in the New Mexico desert.
• The CIA engaged in a massive coverup of the Howard case for more than two years, concealing it from the FBI even after Howard confessed that he was ready to sell secrets to the Russians.
• Howard's house near Santa Fe was wiretapped and kept under surveillance by video cameras, but he escaped from the FBI using a dummy and other techniques taught to him by the CIA.
• Howard destroyed not only the CIA's network of human agents in Moscow, but gave away the agency's "technical assets" in the Soviet Union, its electronic intelligence gathering operations.
• Howard tried to recruit a second former CIA officer, William G. Bosch, who tells his story hey a for the first time.
• Howard's wife, Mary, who was trained to work with him as a spy in Moscow, has secretly visited her husband three times; she helped him escape but later provided crucial details to the FBI.
The Spy Who Got Away is like no other spy story ever told. It not only takes the reader inside the CIA and the FBI as never before, but it narrates the exciting drama from the vantage point of both the pursuers and their quarry, revealing the inner thoughts of the spy himself.
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