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The Main Enemy
The Inside Story Of The Cia's Final Showdown With The Kgb
by Milton Bearden ; James Risen
ISBN: 0679463097
ISBN-13: 9780679463092
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A former CIA agent tells how the agency played a major role, beginning in the mid-1980s, in helping to topple the Soviet Union. Bearden reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of intelligence gathering, clandestine operations, and the fierce rivalry between the CIA and the KGB. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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"If there's a more revealing account of spies at work, it's classified." -- Jeff Stein
-- New York Times Book Review
"THE MAIN ENEMY is a first-rate account from the front lines of the Cold War. With James Risen's deft collaboration, Milton Bearden helps illuminate many of the darker corners of an age of intrigues." -- John Prados
-- Washington Post
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2003
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 2 pounds
Pages: 560
Publisher's Notes
A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.
Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent ambushes in Moscow. This is the story of the generation of spies who came of age in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis and rose through the ranks to run the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War. The clandestine operations they masterminded took them from the sewers of Moscow to the back streets of Baghdad, from Cairo and Havana to Prague and Berlin, but the action centers on Washington, starting in the infamous "Year of the Spy"--when, one by one, the CIA’s agents in Moscow began to be killed, up through to the very last man.
Behind the scenes with the CIA's covert operations in Afghanistan, Milt Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets, and for the first time he reveals here what he did and whom America backed, and why. Bearden was called back to Washington after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and was made chief of the Soviet/East Euro-pean Division—just in time to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe, and the implosion of the Soviet Union.
Laced with startling revelations--about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA and KGB, double and triple agents, covert operations in Berlin and Prague, and the fateful autumn of 1989--The Main Enemy is history at its action-packed best.
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