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Special Tasks: From the New Foreword by Robert Conquest Paperback - 1995
by Anatoli Sudoplatov; Jerrold L. Schecter; Pavel Sudoplatov
Pavel Sudoplatov served the KGB for over 50 years, at one point controlling more than 20,000 guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent 15 years in prison, and 20 more in rehabilitation. This is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire. New Foreword by Robert Conquest. **Lightning Print On Demand Title
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According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks. This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II, it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies.
But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities-- and the rulers who ordered them-- made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess", disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation.
"Special Tasks" is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire.
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- Title Special Tasks: From the New Foreword by Robert Conquest
- Author Anatoli Sudoplatov; Jerrold L. Schecter; Pavel Sudoplatov
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Updated
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston
- Date 1995-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780316821155 / 0316821152
- Weight 1.88 lbs (0.85 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 5.78 x 1.43 in (23.77 x 14.68 x 3.63 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Spies - Soviet Union, Espionage, Soviet - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96147290
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 08/06/1995, Page 32
- Publishers Weekly, 05/08/1995, Page 0
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