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In the enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies / Howard Blum.

Van Pelt Library DK266.3.B546 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Blum, Howard, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gardner, Meredith Knox, 1912-2002.
Gardner, Meredith Knox.
Lamphere, Robert J.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
United States.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union Komitet gosudarstvenno♯Ư bezopasnosti.
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Espionage, Soviet--United States--History.
Espionage, Soviet.
History.
Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
Intelligence officers.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
International relations.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
Local Subjects:
Lamphere, Robert J.
Gardner, Meredith Knox, 1912-2002.
Soviet Union Komitet gosudarstvenno♯Ư bezopasnosti.
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
317 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Summary:
"In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage--the atomic bomb... A breathtaking chapter of American history and a page-turning mystery that plays out against the tense, life-and-death gamesmanship of the Cold War, this twisting thriller begins at the end of World War II and leads all the way to the execution of the Rosenbergs--a result that haunted both Gardner and Lamphere to the end of their lives."--Publisher's description.
Contents:
A note to the reader
Prologue: "The storks fly away"
Part I: The blue problem
Part II: "In the enemy's house"
Part III: Dominoes
Epilogue: A toast.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index.
ISBN:
9780062458247
0062458248
OCLC:
1023436294

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