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Spymaster : startling cold war revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief / Tennent H. Bagley.

Title
Spymaster : startling cold war revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief / Tennent H. Bagley.
Author
Bagley, T. H. (Tennent H.), 1925-2014
Publication
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2013]

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Description
xvii, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
KGB chief Sergei A. Kondrashev presents "tales of surviving Stalin's purges while superiors and colleagues did not, of plotting to reveal the Berlin Tunnel, of quelling the Hungarian Revolution and 'Prague Spring' independence movements, and of assisting in arranging the final disposition of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. [He] also details KGB propaganda and disinformation efforts that shaped Western attitudes throughout the Cold War"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Breaking American ciphers -- and starting a war -- Two views of culture -- Target: the American Embassy -- Inside a deadly purge -- Into foreign intelligence -- and England -- A mole and a tunnel -- "Why do you need all those people here?" -- A unique look at the Hungarian revolution -- Spy center Vienna -- The KGB's Nazi underground -- Richard Sorge redux -- Organizing to disinform -- Active measures -- "How could CIA ever have believed in that man?" -- The top hat paradox -- Prague Spring at the Politburo -- Other places -- The irony of Helsinki -- Watching it end -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9781626360655
  • 1626360650
OCLC
  • 861187224
  • SCSB-11372896
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library