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Autore |
Bagley T. H (Tennent H.), <1925-> |
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Titolo |
Spy wars : moles, mysteries, and deadly games / / Tennent H. Bagley |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-73484-5 |
9786611734848 |
0-300-13478-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Intelligence service - Soviet Union - History |
Espionage, American - Soviet Union |
Intelligence officers - United States |
Intelligence officers - Soviet Union |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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