Spymaster

From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey Kondrashev knew who former foe, ex-CIA officer Tennent H. "Pete" Bagley, was. During a 1994 television program about former spymasters, both men met and began a close friendship. The Russian eventually asked Bagley to help him write his memoirs. Their collective memories revel slices of espionage history that rival anything found in the pages of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, or John le Carre. Publication of Kondrashev's memoir was banned by Putin's regime and so Bagley promised to have them published in the West. Kondrashev died in 2007. Bagley passed away in 2014.