The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

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The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

Title remainder

the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

Statement of responsibility

Ben Macintyre

Creator

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Subject

• Cold War
• Espionage, British -- Soviet Union
• Espionage, British -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
• Gordievsky, Oleg
• Politics and Government

Language

eng

Summary

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 327.1'2'092
• 327.1'2'092
• 327.12092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction