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Last of the Cold War Spies
Door Roland Perry
| Categorie | Algemeen Militaria |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #365436 |
| Titel | Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight--The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring |
| Auteur | Perry, Roland |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
| Uitgeverij | Cambridge : Da Capo Press |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2005 |
| ISBN10 | 0306814285 |
| ISBN13 | 9780306814280 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | The most damaging spy network of the Cold War? the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring? was comprised of several powerful and influential British citizens? and one American, Michael Straight. Born to a wealthy New England family, Straight attended Cambridge University in the 1930s, and there he fell in with the notorious circle of young men working for Soviet intelligence ? Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and Kim Philby, who was to become the most famous spy of the century. For the next several decades, Michael Straight led a secret life: While working at the State Department, he passed intelligence reports to a Russian agent; while running his family's magazine, The New Republic , he funded several communist fronts; and while serving U. S. presidents, including John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, he continued to meet with agents around the world. Despite Michael Straight's 1963 ? confession” to the FBI that his covert activity ceased in 1941, investigative journalist and author Roland Perry has unearthed a different story. Incorporating material from exclusive interviews with Michael Straight, members of his family, and former KGB agents (Perry has been careful to corroborate all KGB-supplied information), as well as archival research from the CIA, FBI, and Soviet intelligence, Perry presents a full and complete portrait of Michael Straight, the last of the Cold War spies. |
| Pagina's | 395 |
| Conditie | Goed |
| Prijs | € 15,00 |
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