By David E. Hoffman
From the writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning heritage The lifeless Hand comes the riveting tale of a secret agent who cracked open the Soviet army examine institution and a penetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of bold espionage within the final years of the chilly War
whereas riding out of the yankee embassy in Moscow at the night of February sixteen, 1978, the executive of the CIA's Moscow station heard a knock on his automobile window. a guy at the slash passed him an envelope whose contents shocked U.S. intelligence: info of top-secret Soviet learn and advancements in army know-how that have been completely unknown to the us. within the years that undefined, the fellow, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet army layout bureau, used his high-level entry handy over tens of hundreds of thousands of pages of technical secrets and techniques. His revelations allowed the USA to reshape its guns platforms to defeat Soviet radar at the floor and within the air, giving the U.S. close to overall superiority within the skies over Europe.
essentially the most useful spies to paintings for the USA within the 4 many years of worldwide war of words with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took huge, immense own risks--but so did the americans. The CIA had lengthy struggled to recruit and run brokers in Moscow, and Tolkachev used to be a novel step forward. utilizing undercover agent cameras and mystery codes in addition to face-to-face conferences in parks and on road corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the dreaded KGB in its personal yard, until eventually the day got here while a surprising betrayal positioned all of them in danger.
Drawing on formerly mystery records received from the CIA and on interviews with members, David Hoffman has created an remarkable and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a guy prompted by way of the depredations of the Soviet country to grasp the craft of spying opposed to his personal kingdom. Stirring, unpredictable, and now and then unbearably stressful, The Billion buck Spy is a superb feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage mystery.
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Today warning intelligence analysis is aided and abetted by the proliferation of all-day news services such as CNN, and most operations centers in the United States probably watch CNN for early warning. Current Intelligence A second product is the daily report, a heritage from military intelligence; for many years military commanders have expected to receive, first thing in the morning, an intelligence briefing to begin their day. President Truman was an early and eager recipient of an intelligence brief designed just for the White House, and the practice of issuing a daily brief has become a staple of CIA intelligence production.
They include various forms of psychological warfare, including deception and disinformation, the use of "agents of influence" for political or economic operations, support for guerrillas or irregular military forces, and in some countries assassination, terrorism, or sabotage. Despite a long history of such covert activity by the United States, the subject is one of continuing controversy. George Washington's use of covert action to combat the British is well documented, and the other Founding Fathers, including Jefferson and Is the Spy Machine Broken?
In the 1970s the United States developed a "nearreal-time" photo capability from space that used digital imagery to return pictures almost instantly and with remarkable clarity. At first the KH-11, as the near-real-time satellite was called, was protected by strict security controls, but when a low-level CIA officer decided to steal the manual that explained the KH-11's operation and sell it to the Soviets, the strict controls proved worthless. Later, imagery from the satellite was released to the press to support various White House positions, and so the entire imagery methodology has become quite well known.