Spy Wars : Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

by Tennent H. Bagley

• ISBN13: 9780300136241
• ISBN10: 0300136242
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-05-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

As intriguing as any rapid-paced spy novel, this book breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's defection to the United States in 1963. Was Nosenko a bona fide defector with firsthand knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald, or was he a master of deceit, still loyal to the KGB? The CIA officer who handled the case at last uncovers the truth. Book jacket.

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

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
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
Glossary	p. 278
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 307
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