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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Spymaster, defector, double agent-the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post–cold war spy program in America.In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the cold war ended, and a new world order began. We thought everything had changed. But one thing never changed: the spies.From 1995 to 2000, a man known as "Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative in the SVR-the successor agency to the KGB-in the United States. He directed all Russian...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"The Bureau and the Mole takes you into the shadowy world of Robert Philip Hanssen, a twenty-five-year veteran of the FBI who was a devout Catholic and a devoted family man, who attended the same church and sent his children to the same school as his boss, Bureau Director Louis J. Freeh. But as he emerged from a troubled childhood in Chicago to rise to the highest ranks of America's counterintelligence experts, Hanssen was also leading another life...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"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,...
10) Breach
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
What starts out as a surveillance for a new agent on his boss quickly becomes one of the biggest security breaches in U.S. history. Based on actual events. Bonus features include alternate and deleted scenes, commentary, and documentary.
"...a crackling tale of real-life espionage that doubles as a compelling psychological drama."--Los Angeles Times.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia. Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018: slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe, were a former Russian intelligence officer named Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Sergei had been living a quiet life in England since 2010, when he was expelled from Russia as part of...
14) Into the mirror
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"Lawrence Schiller re-creates a gripping portrait of Hanssen, who for twenty-two years was a loving husband, a devoted father of six, a deeply devout Catholic and member of Opus Dei, a passionate anticommunist, a dedicated FBI agent - and a traitor the likes of which the United States has never before seen." "On February 18, 2001, the FBI finally arrested Hanssen and charged him with selling to the Russians - over a period of more than twenty years...