num_pages: 448
description: 1981. Ronald Reagan and Franois Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France respectively. The tension due to Mitterrands French Communist support however is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier a file he would later call one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov a promising technical student joins the KGB to work as a spy. Following a couple of murky incidents however Vetrov is removed from the field and placed at a desk as an analyst. Soon burdened by a troubled marriage and frustrated at a flailing career Vetrov turns to alcohol. Desperate and needing redemption he offers his services to the DST. Thus Agent Farewell is born. He uses his post within the KGB to steal and photocopy files of the USSRs plans for the Westall under Brezhnevs nose.Probing further into Vetrovs psychological profile than ever before Kostin and Raynaud provide groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the fall of the Soviet Regime.
language: English
title: Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century
publisher: AmazonCrossing