Cherkashin Victor, Feifer Gregory. Spy Hadler. Memoir of a KGB Officer

Basic Books, 2005.The true story of the man who recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer. It is an outstanding narrative of how former CIA agent Ames and how former FBI agent Hanssen gave the KGB the "mother lode" of information on the United States intelligence efforts against the former Soviet Union. To America, Ames and Hanssen were monsters.but the author demonstrates how in the eyes of the KGB both men were heroes. Interestingly enough, Ames declares he cooperated with the KGB because, "he worked for an agency that deliberately overestimated Soviet Union capabilities to wrangle more money for its own operations." Hanssen basically cooperated with the KGB because he loved the danger of it and truly thought he was much too smart to get caught.