The Penkovskiy papers
By: by Oleg Penkovskiy. Introd. and commentary by Frank Gibney. Foreword by Edward Crankshaw. Translated by Peter Deriabin.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng; und
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Espionage, Soviet; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
Description: This book is about a man from Russia who passed mostly economic and technical information to the United States and Great Britain during the Cold War acting out of the deep conviction that he was serving the cause of human progress. However, the information that he passed was Top-secret and when caught he was sentanced to death by firing squad.