Spy wars : moles, mysteries, and deadly games / Tennent H. Bagley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagley, T. H. (Tennent H.), 1925-2014.

Series:

Yale University Press Health & Wellness.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bagley, T. H. (Tennent H.), 1925-2014.

Bagley, T. H.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

United States.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Soviet Union.

Intelligence service--Soviet Union--History.

Intelligence service.

Espionage, American--Soviet Union.

Espionage, American.

Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.

Intelligence officers.

Intelligence officers--Soviet Union--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

Unabridged.

Place of Publication:

2007.

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the year for 2007.In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than forty years: was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception? As supervisor of CIA operations against the KGB at the time, Tennent H. Bagley directly handled Nosenko's case. This insider knowledge, combined with information gleaned from dozens of interviews with former KGB adversaries, places Bagley in a uniquely authoritative position. He guides the reader step by step through the complicated operations surrounding the Nosenko affair and shatters the comfortable version of events the CIA has presented to the public. Bagley unveils not only the KGB's history of merciless and bloody betrayals but also the existence of undiscovered traitors in the American camp. Shining new light on the CIA-KGB spy wars, he invites deeper thinking about the history of espionage and its implications for the intelligence community today.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Walk-in

2. Getting Under Way

3. A Visit to Headquarters

4. En Route

5. New Job, Under Clouds

6. Bombshell

7. Popov's Ghost

8. Defection

9. Impasse

10. ''Guiding Principle''

11. Deceiving in Wartime

12. Postwar Games

13. Symbiosis: Moles and Games

14. Dead Drop

15. Code Clerks

16. Connections

17. Crunch Time

18. Face-off

19. Head in the Sand

20. Lingering Debate

21. Hiding a Mole, KGB-Style

22. The Other Side of the Moon

23. Boomerang

Appendix A. A KGB Veteran's View of Nosenko

Appendix B. A Myth and Its Making

Appendix C. Self-deception-Bane of Counterintelligence

Appendix D. Glossary

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73484-5

9786611734848

0-300-13478-9

OCLC:

952734039