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In a tale that reads more like a novel than a piece of nonfiction, hoffman takes his audience through the moment that adolf. The billion dollar spy is the true story of an electronics engineer at a secret military aviation institute in moscow who for almost seven years provided the cia with a huge volume of sensitive and valuable intelligence on soviet research and development r%d activities concerning radars, avionics, aa missiles, and other technologies. The winner of the pulitzer prize for his previous book, the dead hand. Mar 29, 2016 as is the style of histories published these days, the billion dollar spy opens not at the beginning of the story but with a dramatic event briefly recountedin this case, a cia officers attempt in december 1982 to recontact tolkachev, who had not been able to communicate for several months. Get indepth analysis delivered right to your inbox. A scrupulously researched work of history that is also a gripping thriller, the billion dollar spy is an unforgettable journey into cold war espionage. One of best spy stories wash post the billion dollar spy. Hoffman is a distinguished journalist and winner of the pulitzer prize. Courtesy of valery smychkovfrom the book the billion dollar spy once on the street, the van took a slow, irregular course. Jul 07, 2015 a thoroughly researched excavation of an astoundingly important and sadly sacrificed spy for the cia during the low point of the 1970s. Apart from that he has published a couple of other popular books. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the british woocp intelligence agency.
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This spellbinding story pulses with the dramatic tension of running an agent in sovietera moscowwhere the kgb is ubiquitous and cia officers and russian assets are prey. In departing the embassy in disguise, rolphs goal was to. Click download or read online button to get summary of the billion dollar spy book now. The billion dollar spy, unintentionally i think evokes a famous item from studies in intelligence many years ago, the million dollar photograph. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the cia and on interviews with participants, david hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country.
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