Spy Wars : Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

by Tennent H. Bagley

• ISBN13: 9780300121988
• ISBN10: 0300121989
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2007-04-24
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than forty years: was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception? As supervisor of CIA operations against the KGB at the time, Tennent H. Bagley directly handled Nosenko's case. This insider knowledge, combined with information gleaned from dozens of interviews with former KGB adversaries, places Bagley in a uniquely authoritative position. He guides the reader step by step through the complicated operations surrounding the Nosenko affair and shatters the comfortable version of events the CIA has presented to the public. Bagley unveils not only the KGB's history of merciless and bloody betrayals but also the existence of undiscovered traitors in the American camp. Shining new light on the CIA-KGB spy wars, he invites deeper thinking about the history of espionage and its implications for the intelligence community today.

Author Biography

Tennent H. (“Pete”) Bagley served twenty-two years in the CIA, handling spies and defectors in Clandestine Services and rising to chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence. He is now a writer and researcher based in Brussels, Belgium.

Table of Contents

A defector like no other
Walk-in	p. 3
Getting under way	p. 10
A visit to headquarters	p. 19
En route	p. 28
New job, under clouds	p. 51
Bombshell	p. 63
Popov's ghost	p. 68
Defection	p. 80
Impasse	p. 92
Deadly games
"Guiding principle"	p. 105
Deceiving in wartime	p. 112
Postwar games	p. 118
Symbiosis : moles and games	p. 133
Hidden moles
Dead drop	p. 147
Code clerks	p. 156
Connections	p. 163
Confrontation
Crunch time	p. 177
Face-off	p. 183
Too hot to handle
Head in the sand	p. 197
Lingering debate	p. 209
Late light
Hiding a mole, KGB-style	p. 223
The other side of the moon	p. 231
Boomerang	p. 238
A KGB veteran's view of Nosenko	p. 247
A myth and its making	p. 256
Self-deception - bane of counterintelligence	p. 265
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