Mrs Petrova's shoe : the true story of a KGB defection / Wilhelm Agrell ; translated from the Swedish by Dr Simon Moores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Argell, Wilhelm, author.

Contributor:

Moores, Simon, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petrova, Evdokia.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Espionage, Soviet--Australia.

Espionage, Soviet.

Cold War.

History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 239 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

"On 19 April 1954 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama at Sydney Airport. A small, seemingly fragile woman, was being aggresively marched to an awaiting plane by two burly men. Evdokia Petrova was the wife of Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov who, two weeks earlier, had defected from the embassy in Canberra after a prolonged 'cultivation' by the Australian Security Service, supported by MI5. Evdokia was now being hurried back to Moscow by the KGB. The subsequent intervention by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies kept the world's media on tenterhooks ... After the defection it turned out that Evdokia was, in fact, an even bigger catch than her husband. With a background both in cryptological work in Moscow and in field operations, she was able to supply Western intelligence with a wealth of information and insight into the workings of the Soviet intelligence system"-- Amazon.com.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1788314603

9781788314602

OCLC:

1042084549