Title: The man behind the Rosenbergs /
Authors: Feklisov, Aleksandr,; Kostin, Sergeĭ
Date: 2001
Publisher: Enigma Books,
Physical description: xxvi, 432 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: U
Abstract: Until the publication of this book, Alexander Feklisov's role was unknown to the general public. Feklisov reveals for the first time that he was the case officer handling the secret Rosenberg intelligence network in New York. He claims that he actually formed a close friendship to Julius Rosenberg and always felt Julius and his wife had been wrongfully executed. No ordinary intelligence officer, he was also the case officer of atomic spy Klaus Fuchs in London, and finally acted as the secret messenger between President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, helping to end the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as seen in the Hollywood movie, Thirteen Days. - Publisher.
Contents: Introduction / Ronald Radosh -- From Worker's Alley to 61st Street -- Foul Play or Gentleman's Profession? -- Fighting Comrade and Fellow Soldiers -- A New War -- The Puritan of Espionage -- The Wrecking of a Network -- The Clash of the Titans.
Notes: "By the KGB spymaster who was the case officer of Julius Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis."
Subject headings (LCSH): Espionage, Soviet--United States.; Feklisov, Aleksandr, 1914-2007.; Intelligence officers--Soviet Union--Biography.; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--Biography.