Books on Soviet espionage/counter-espionage in Washington -- your chance to recommend!

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Anybody care to share some worthwhile books in this field?

Thanks in advance

DQ (danny quintana), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Christopher Andrew's The Sword and the Shield is a magnificient overview on KGB history in general with a hell of a lot of until-then unknown file info, though it isn't a specific study of activity in Washington itself.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you. I look forward to reading it.

DQ (danny quintana), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Just finished reading Yuri Shvets' Washington Station. Good book that details the typical cycle of a late Cold War KGB agent: early eagerness, attempts to impress bureaucracy met with indifference, followed by later disaffection and eventual defection to the West.

Best revelation in the book: despite all the attempts to recruit well-placed higher-ups, bureaucrats and academics, the best intelligence was gathered by a regular janitor who emptied the trash in DC defense contractor offices.

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)


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