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The Spy in Moscow Station
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat | Eric Haseltine
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The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscowbefore more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially existthose in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian Foreign Ministry assert with confidence that he was a spy? Outsmarting honey traps and encroaching deep enough into enemy territory to perform complicated technical investigations, Gandy accomplished his mission in Russia, but discovered more than State and CIA wanted him to know. Eric Haseltine's The Spy in Moscow Station tells of a time whenmuch like todayRussian spycraft had proven itself far beyond the best technology the U.S. had to offer. The perils of American arrogance mixed with bureaucratic infighting left the country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian electronic surveillance and espionage. This is the true story of unorthodox, underdog intelligence officers who fought an uphill battle against their own government to prove that the KGB had pulled off the most devastating penetration of U.S. national security in history. If you think "The Americans" isn't riveting enough, you'll love this toe-curling nonfiction thriller.
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After a series of CIA compromises in Moscow in 1978, the NSA investigated the US embassy and found spying technology so sophisticated that many didn‘t believe the Russians could have planted it, allowing its use to continue for 6 more years. This is a fascinating exploration of how ego and hubris can cause problems and how we‘ve learned so little from this incident and others.

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Nonfiction about the Cold War. So basically made for me.