LEADER 04155nam 2200409 450 001 9910163945103321 005 20230808200301.0 010 $a1-5416-9847-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000948611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786033 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5368978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5368978 035 $a(OCoLC)969639746 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000948611 100 $a20220803d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe man with the poison gun $ea Cold War spy story /$fSerhii Plokhy 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cBasic Books,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (388 pages) 311 $a0-465-03590-6 311 $a0-465-09660-3 327 $aIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART I: KGB MAN -- 1. Stalin's Call -- 2. Master Killer -- 3. Secret Agent -- 4. Parachutist -- 5. Streets of Munich -- 6. Wonder Weapon -- 7. Greetings from Moscow -- PART II: PERFECT MURDER -- 8. Red Square -- 9. Herr Popel -- 10. Dead on Arrival -- 11. Funeral -- 12. CIA Telegram -- 13. Upswing -- 14. Prime Suspect -- 15. Active Measures -- PART III: MOSCOW NIGHTS -- 16. High Hopes -- 17. Man at the Top -- 18. Private Matter -- 19. Award -- 20. Proposal -- 21. Introducing the Bride -- 22. Month of the Spy -- 23. Going in Circles -- PART IV: ESCAPE FROM PARADISE -- 24. Moscow Bugs -- 25. Family -- 26. Change of Plans -- 27. New Year -- 28. Back to School -- 29. Telephone Call -- 30. Berlin -- 31. Down to the Wire -- PART V: PUBLICITY BOMB -- 32. Shock Wave -- 33. Defector -- 34. Investigation -- 35. Press Conference -- 36. High Politics -- 37. Congressman -- PART VI: TRIAL -- 38. Karlsruhe -- 39. Loyalty and Betrayal -- 40. First Murder -- 41. Big Day -- 42. Doubt -- 43. Prosecution -- 44. Devil's Advocates -- 45. Verdict -- PART VII: DEPARTED -- 46. Unanswered Letter -- 47. Guest from Washington -- 48. Judex -- 49. Vanished -- 50. Kremlin Ghost -- 51. On the Run -- 52. Homecoming -- Epilogue: The Cold War Redux -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. 330 $a"In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed secret weapon--a spray pistol delivering liquid poison that, if fired into the victim's face, killed him without leaving any trace. Wracked by a guilty conscience, Stashinsky escaped with his wife under the tragic cover of their infant son's funeral, and crossed into West Berlin just hours before the Berlin Wall was erected. In 1962, after spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case in Cold War history. Stashinsky's testimony, implicating the Kremlin rulers in political assassinations carried out abroad, shook the world of international politics. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders, the former head of the KGB and Leonid Brezhnev's rival, Aleksandr Shelepin. In West Germany, the Stashinsky trial changed the way in which Nazi criminals were prosecuted. Using the Stashinsky case as a precedent, many defendants in such cases claimed, as had the Soviet spy, that they were simply accessories to murder, while their superiors, who ordered the killings, were the main perpetrators."--Provided by publisher. 676 $a327.1247043092 700 $aPlokhy$b Serhii$f1957-$0296244 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163945103321 996 $aMan with the poison gun$91535011 997 $aUNINA