Great Spies of the 20th Century

Great Spies of the 20th Century

by Patrick Pesnot
Great Spies of the 20th Century

Great Spies of the 20th Century

by Patrick Pesnot

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Overview

Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthral us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as close as possible into the world of espionage, though a panorama of intelligence history.Among the best known of these agents, the reader will find Aldrich Ames, an American accused of spying for the KGB; Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy best known for his espionage work in Syria and Klaus Fuchs, the German-born British agent who helped the USSR to manufacture its atomic bomb in 1949.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473862210
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date: 01/31/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Confidant of 'Mr X' and the host of Rendez-vous avec X, Patrick Pesnot is a journalist and novelist. His non-fiction titles include works on Islamic terrorism and Russian spies. He is also the author of an historical novel, The Regent.

Table of Contents

Content 5

Acknowledgements 7

Author's note 9

Chapter 1 Blunt the Gentleman Spy 11

Chapter 2 Alger Hiss: Nixon's bête noire 19

Chapter 3 Boulanger: Stalin's Villain 27

Chapter 4 The Red Fox 35

Chapter 5 Mroz: the death of a little captain 41

Chapter 6 A tunnel to Berlin 49

Chapter 7 Penkovsky: Luring Cuban Missiles 57

Chapter 8 Nasser's Rockets 65

Chapter 9 Lotz: saved by a little piece of skin… 73

Chapter 10 The Spy Who Hid Behind Another 81

Chapter 11 Cohen: the Damascus Hanging 89

Chapter 12 Blackmailed by a false Resistor 97

Chapter 13 Frauenknecht: The Mirage thief 103

Chapter 14 Gabriele Gast: West Germany's Juliet 111

Chapter 15 Pham Xuan Ân: America's False Friend 119

Chapter 16 The Guillaume Affair: A Conspiracy against Brandt 127

Chapter 17 Espionage, Science and Conscience 141

Chapter 18 Pollard: the Spy amongst friends 147

Chapter 19 The Polyakov Mystery 155

Chapter 20 'Baba's' box 163

Chapter 21 Yurchenko: false defector and genuine spy 171

Chapter 22 Aldrich Ames: the spy who hunted spies 179

Chapter 23 Hanssen: the man who never laughed 189

(Endnotes) 197

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