Widows

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WIDOWS telis the story of a 25-year intelligence war wlth the Sovlet Union that the United States lost. Unprecedented in detail and scope, WIDOWS draws on years of research, interviews with more than 500 participants and thousands of unreleased documents. It is certain to cause repercussions worldwide as it portrays the deadly struggle between the intelligence forces of the Soviet Union and the West.
For the first time, members of the intelligence community go on record about four disasters. WIDOWS reveals the first Soviet mole in the CIA and his frantic existence as he sat at the elbow of CIA director Allén Dulles while remaining fully under the control of the KGB. The authors examine the implications of the real story of John Arthur Paisley, a key CIA officer who disappeared from his sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay in 1978. They alsó offer the first authentic account of Nicholas Feydorovich Artamonov, a dashing Soviet naval captain who defected to America in 1959, gained access... Tovább

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WIDOWS telis the story of a 25-year intelligence war wlth the Sovlet Union that the United States lost. Unprecedented in detail and scope, WIDOWS draws on years of research, interviews with more than 500 participants and thousands of unreleased documents. It is certain to cause repercussions worldwide as it portrays the deadly struggle between the intelligence forces of the Soviet Union and the West.
For the first time, members of the intelligence community go on record about four disasters. WIDOWS reveals the first Soviet mole in the CIA and his frantic existence as he sat at the elbow of CIA director Allén Dulles while remaining fully under the control of the KGB. The authors examine the implications of the real story of John Arthur Paisley, a key CIA officer who disappeared from his sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay in 1978. They alsó offer the first authentic account of Nicholas Feydorovich Artamonov, a dashing Soviet naval captain who defected to America in 1959, gained access to the core of the American intelligence community, and disappeared sixteen years later in Vienna while operating as a double agent for the FBI.
WIDOWS reaches a stunning climax with the mysterious death of Ralph Joseph Sigler, the FBI and Army Intelligence's premier double agent for a decade. This book reveals how Sigler, code-named GRAPHIC IMAGE, really died - and why. Ilse Sigler is the one certain widow in WIDOWS - in her case there was a real body. The other two never had the satisfaction of being sure.
A full portrait of the behind-the-scenes battles that destroyed careers and derailed much of Western intelligence, this is an important, fascinating and disturbing book. Vissza