Crown Publishers, 2014. — 430 p. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63...
While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the...
Random House (NY), 1999. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0679444009; ISBN13: 9780679444008. The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the 20th century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the USA in 1897, he rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow & join the anti-Communist establishment after WW2. He became one of...
Harper, 2005. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0060510358; ISBN13: 9780060510350. As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, author John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. In the first years of World War II, his father, then an idealistic student of literature and sociology, was recruited into military intelligence and thrown into action in...
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