Spymaster (eBook)

Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief

Tennent H. Bagley (Autor)

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2013
321 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-543-7 (ISBN)

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From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.During a 1994 television program about former spymasters, Kondrashev met and began a close friendship with a former foe, ex–CIA officer Tennent H. “Pete” Bagley, whom the Russian asked to help write his memoirs.Because Bagley knew so about much of Kondrashev’s career (they had been on opposite sides in several operations), his penetrating questions and insights reveal slices of never-revealed espionage history that rival anything found in the pages of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, or John le Carré: chilling tales of surviving Stalin’s purges while superiors and colleagues did not, of plotting to reveal the Berlin Tunnel, of quelling the Hungarian Revolution and “Prague Spring” independence movements, and of assisting in arranging the final disposition of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Kondrashev also details equally fascinating KGB propaganda and disinformation efforts that shaped Western attitudes throughout the Cold War.Because publication of these memoirs was banned by Putin’s regime, Bagley promised Kondrashev to have them published in the West. They are now available to all who are fascinated by vivid tales of international intrigue.

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?Tennent Bagley's Spymaster is the single most revealing book about espionage to emerge from the Cold War."e; ?Edward Jay Epstein, author of Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIAFrom the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia's notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he ?handled"e; American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.During a 1994 television program about former spymasters, Kondrashev met and began a close friendship with a former foe, ex-CIA officer Tennent H. ?Pete"e; Bagley, whom the Russian asked to help write his memoirs.Because Bagley knew so much about Kondrashev's career (they had been on opposite sides in several operations), his penetrating questions and insights reveal slices of espionage history that rival anything found in the pages of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, or John le Carre: chilling tales of surviving Stalin's purges while superiors and colleagues did not, of plotting to reveal the Berlin tunnel, of quelling the Hungarian Revolution and ?Prague Spring"e; independence movements, and of assisting in arranging the final disposition of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Evan Braun. Kondrashev also details equally fascinating KGB propaganda and disinformation efforts that shaped Western attitudes throughout the Cold War.Because publication of these memoirs was banned by Putin's regime, Bagley promised Kondrashev to have them published in the West. They are now available to all who are fascinated by vivid tales of international intrigue.

Autor

Tennent H. Bagley served for twenty-two years in the CIA, where he handled spies and defectors before becoming chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence. He is the author of Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1956 hungarian • 1968 • America • american traitor • apparatchik • Austro • books on bronson pinchots • books on disinformations • books on foreign intelligences • books on hungarian revolutions • books on insiders • books on soviet intelligences • books on soviet unions • books on spy games • books on ussrs books on russian intelligences • bronson pinchot • CIA • Cold War • Cold War espionage • COLD WAR HISTORY • condenses • Counterintelligence • defectors • dexterously • disinformation • emissary • espionage war • foreign intelligence • Former Soviet Union • george blake • giddy • Hitler • Hungarian revolution • Insider • insider's perspective • Intelligence Agencies • intelligence operations • john j dziak • kgb agent • Kirkus • Kremlin • moles • Moscow • operative • penetrating • Penetration • pete bagley • post cold war • Prague • Putin • putin’s • ranking kgb • real-world • Russian • russian government • russian intelligence • soviet intelligence • Soviets • Soviet Union • Spies • spycraft • spy games • Spymaster • startling • suppression apparatus • true spy • Unpublished • USSR • venerate • Veteran • Vienna • war era
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-543-0 / 1628735430
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-543-7 / 9781628735437