Venona
Subtitle: the greatest secret of the Cold War
By: Nigel West.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Cold War.; Cryptography -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Espionage, Soviet -- History -- Sources.; Spies -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "Venona: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War is the hitherto untold story of the peacetime equivalent of Ultra, an extraordinary cryptographic effort conducted in conditions of unprecedented secrecy over three decades which gave Western counter-intelligence experts a fascinating glimpse into how Soviet Russia recruited and ran hundreds of moles across the globe." "Nigel West's book is based on the only complete set of decrypts held in Britain outside Whitehall, supplemented by interviews with most of the principal players in the Venona drama."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.