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Chargement... Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed (édition 2013)par Sandra Grimes (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreCircle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed par Sandra Grimes Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Clunky writing and clunky world-view. But, still, fascinating account and certainly including the two authors and the CIA itself with that aforementioned world-view. ( ) Written by the action officer CIA persons, this book illuminated the search for Aldrich Ames. Ames spied for the USSR and profited greatly by it--until his downfall. The USSR citizens who Ames betrayed were all eliminated by their country--some of them were highlighted in detail. The cast of characters is complex and long with several foreign names and a plethora of US bureaucrats. This complexity detracted from understanding a little, but was necessary to establish bona fides, credit, and clarity. While stating up front that the authors have no axe to grind, they factually stated their distaste for CIA management, illustrated by the medals (rewards) received for the job and the recognition received by individuals who accomplished the work and back pedaling under congressional pressure.
Circle of Treason has the advantage of being written by two intelligence professionals [Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille], not by academics or journalists, and thus is an authoritative account of the Soviet sources that were providing the U.S. with invaluable information during the Cold War until [CIA officer Aldrich] Ames betrayed them. Because classified material on operational cases was going to be made public, the CIA took over three years to approve the book's publication. . . . The first half of Circle of Treason focuses on the sources Ames exposed. . . . The second half of the book describes actions that the agency [KGB] took when the agency's Soviet operations started hemorrhaging after June 1985. . . . The authors present themselves as advocates for their heroes, whose stories they felt deserved to be told.
Circle of Treason details the authors' personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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