The main enemy : the inside story of the CIA's final showdown with the KGB / Milt Bearden and James Risen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bearden, Milt.

Contributor:

Risen, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

United States.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Soviet Union.

Espionage, American--History--20th century.

Espionage, American.

History.

Espionage, Soviet--History--20th century.

Espionage, Soviet.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

viii, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Inside story of the CIA's final showdown with the KGB

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2003]

Summary:

The Main Enemy takes you inside the CIA-KGB spy wars during the climactic endgame of the Cold War and makes you feel that you're living them in real time. It's pure Tom Clancy -- with double and triple agents, and secret cyanide capsules hidden in modified Mont Blanc pens -- except that every single word is true.

The story begins in 1985, the notorious Year of the Spy, and carries us into the Afghan war, through to the toppling of the Berlin Wall and the final implosion of the Soviet Union. Bestsellers like The Sword and the Shield have given us a glimpse of the Soviet side, but this is the first book to reveal the truth about what the CIA was up to as the evil empire began to crumble. An action-packed story of high drama and high stakes, written with the full cooperation of dozens of senior intelligence officers from both sides, The Main Enemy is history at its best, told through the eyes of its participants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [539]-542) and index.

ISBN:

0679463097

OCLC:

52156536