Title:
Dead doubles : the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings / Trevor Barnes.
ISBN:
9780062856999
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
©2020
Physical Description:
xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Who's who and code-names -- Note on the KGB -- MI5: Who's who of the Portland spy case -- Prologue -- Part one: Investigation. Code-name 'Reverberate' ; Code-name 'Last Act' ; Code-name 'Killjoys' ; Code-name 'Sniper' -- Part two: Morris and Lona Cohen. The FBI hunt for the Cohens -- Part three: Trial. 'One of the most disgraceful cases to come before this court' -- Part four: Inquest. Anatomy of a spy scandal -- Part five: Prison and spy swaps. Gordon Lonsdale ; The Krogers ; Houghton and Gee -- Part six: Russian versions of the truth. Konon Molody in Moscow ; Konon Molody--the spy ; The Cohens in Moscow ; The Cohens as spies ; Houghton and Gee--life after prison ; Houghton and Gee as spies -- Epilogue.
Summary:
An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
Corporate Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1192461668
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
