espionage, soviet

"Spy With No Country tells the gripping story of a brilliant scientist whose information about the plutonium bomb, including detailed drawings and measurements, proved to be integral to the Soviet's development of nuclear capabilities"--.

Macintyre reveals the story of the female spy hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War--one of the last great intelligence secrets of the 20th century.

"Tells the story of the most important female spy in history, Ruth Werner: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. 'Ursula Burton' was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all"--Adapted from publisher description.

"An exploration of the history of the 1954-founded KGB and other Russian espionage agencies, investigating their typical training and tools as well as the escapades of famous spies"--Provided by publisher.

"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night. The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third--and final--world war"--Provided by the publisher.

Tells the story of the FBI investigation of Aldrich Ames, a thirty-one-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, who was also a Russian spy, and Leslie G. Wiser, Jr., the agent whose determination helped bring him to justice.

"An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape"--Provided by publisher.

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history---a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, while also secretly working for the enemy. Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6, had no trouble trading confidences with Philby as the two had gone to the same schools and belonged to the same exclusive clubs. But Philby was betraying his British friend as well as an American one--James Jesus Angleton, the head of the CIA's counterintelligence. Every word of Elliott's and Angleton's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every great Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom.

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.

The author provides an account of how he tracked down "Hunter," a criminal who was hacking into the nation's computer networks to gain unauthorized access to sensitive military and security information.