SPY! Six Stories by Richard Deacon, Nigel West (.PDF)
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SPY! Six Stories of Modern Espionage (1980) by Richard Deacon, Nigel West
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Overview: Published in conjunction with the BBC television series Spy!
Here are six great stories of twentieth- century espionage – all true and all more intriguing than fiction. Many of these spies have had a real and lasting, if hitherto generally unknown, influence on world history.
In this book, Richard Deacon and Nigel West examine not only their political roles but their own psychology – what motivates a spy and what makes a successful spymaster?
Some of the spies like Richard Sorge and the beautiful ‘Cynthia’ are comparatively well known. The identity of others, such as the Double Cross Agent, Tate, have only recently been revealed – their activities shrouded by the Official Secrets Act. The grim tale of Stashinsky – a KGB assassin – offers a disturbing parallel to the recent killing of Georgi Markov. The chapters on the Venlo Incident and John Vassall give an inside view ofhow spymasters and governments can and do make grave mistakes which cannot always be covered up.
Spy! in its combination of scrupulous accuracy and readability is a fascinating analysis of intelligence agents and the secret organisations for which they risked their lives.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Espionage & Intelligence
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