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The Resource The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal, David E. Hoffman

The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal, David E. Hoffman

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"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment, using his access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of material about the latest advances in aviation technology, alerting the Americans to possible developments years in the future. He was one of the most productive and valuable spies ever to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union. Tolkachev took enormous personal risks, but so did his CIA handlers. Moscow station was a dangerous posting to the KGB's backyard. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev became a singular breakthrough. With hidden cameras and secret codes, and in face-to-face meetings with CIA case officers in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and the CIA worked to elude the feared KGB. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA, as well as interviews with participants, Hoffman reveals how the depredations of the Soviet state motivated one man to master the craft of spying against his own nation until he was betrayed to the KGB by a disgruntled former CIA trainee. No one has ever told this story before in such detail, and Hoffman's deep knowledge of spycraft, the Cold War, and military technology makes him uniquely qualified to bring readers this real-life espionage thriller"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Map
  • Prologue
  • Out of the Wilderness
  • Moscow Station
  • A Man Called Sphere
  • "Finally I have reached you"
  • "A dissident at heart"
  • Six Figures
  • Spy Camera
  • Windfalls and Hazards
  • The Billion Dollar Spy
  • Flight of Utopia
  • Going Black
  • Devices and Desires
  • Tormented by the Past
  • "Everything is dangerous"
  • Not Caught Alive
  • Seeds of Betrayal
  • Vanquish
  • Selling Out
  • Without Warning
  • On the Run
  • "For freedom"
  • Epilogue
  • A Note on the Intelligence
Isbn
9780385537605
Instance
Label
The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
Title
The billion dollar spy
Title remainder
a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
Statement of responsibility
David E. Hoffman
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment, using his access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of material about the latest advances in aviation technology, alerting the Americans to possible developments years in the future. He was one of the most productive and valuable spies ever to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union. Tolkachev took enormous personal risks, but so did his CIA handlers. Moscow station was a dangerous posting to the KGB's backyard. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev became a singular breakthrough. With hidden cameras and secret codes, and in face-to-face meetings with CIA case officers in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and the CIA worked to elude the feared KGB. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA, as well as interviews with participants, Hoffman reveals how the depredations of the Soviet state motivated one man to master the craft of spying against his own nation until he was betrayed to the KGB by a disgruntled former CIA trainee. No one has ever told this story before in such detail, and Hoffman's deep knowledge of spycraft, the Cold War, and military technology makes him uniquely qualified to bring readers this real-life espionage thriller"--Provided by publisher
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Hoffman, David E.
Dewey number
  • 327.12092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E840.8.T65
LC item number
H63 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Tolkachev, Adolf
  • Spies
  • Spies
  • Engineers
  • Aeronautics
  • Espionage, American
  • United States
  • Cold War
  • United States
  • Soviet Union
Label
The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal, David E. Hoffman
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Map -- Prologue -- Out of the Wilderness -- Moscow Station -- A Man Called Sphere -- "Finally I have reached you" -- "A dissident at heart" -- Six Figures -- Spy Camera -- Windfalls and Hazards -- The Billion Dollar Spy -- Flight of Utopia -- Going Black -- Devices and Desires -- Tormented by the Past -- "Everything is dangerous" -- Not Caught Alive -- Seeds of Betrayal -- Vanquish -- Selling Out -- Without Warning -- On the Run -- "For freedom" -- Epilogue -- A Note on the Intelligence
Control code
1604038
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780385537605
Lccn
2015003370
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1604038
  • (OCoLC)906798006
Label
The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal, David E. Hoffman
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Map -- Prologue -- Out of the Wilderness -- Moscow Station -- A Man Called Sphere -- "Finally I have reached you" -- "A dissident at heart" -- Six Figures -- Spy Camera -- Windfalls and Hazards -- The Billion Dollar Spy -- Flight of Utopia -- Going Black -- Devices and Desires -- Tormented by the Past -- "Everything is dangerous" -- Not Caught Alive -- Seeds of Betrayal -- Vanquish -- Selling Out -- Without Warning -- On the Run -- "For freedom" -- Epilogue -- A Note on the Intelligence
Control code
1604038
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780385537605
Lccn
2015003370
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 1604038
  • (OCoLC)906798006

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