"An early reader's guide to KGB spies, introducing Russian espionage history, famous agents such as Oleg Penkovsky, techniques such as dead drops, and the dangers all spies face"--Provided by publisher.
how the FBI failed in counterintelligence but promoted the politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War years
Theoharis, Athan G
2002
Presents evidence from U.S. and Soviet intelligence files to support the author's argument that the FBI's failure to find and convict Soviet agents in the 1940s and 1950s was due largely to its concentration on ferreting out communists through illegal means.
Povides an insider's account of espionage maneuvers in Berlin between America's CIA and Russia's KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
