The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781574880465


Winner of the National Intelligence Study Center"s Award for Intelligence Literature, this book is set at the height of the Cold War. In 1961 and 1962, Oleg Penkovsky became the highest-ranking Soviet military official ever to co-operate with the West. This true story details how the CIA "runs" its agents, and how brutally the KGB hunts down its turncoats. Jerold Schecter is the co-editor of "Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes".