The billion dollar spy
Subtitle: a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
By: David E. Hoffman
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9781410482891
Subjects: Aeronautics; Cold War; American Espionage; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Research; United States; Biography; Large type books; Engineers; Spies; Foreign relations; History
Description: Leaving the American embassy in Moscow one evening in 1978, the CIA station chief heard a knock on his car window and was handed an envelope containing Soviet military technology research unknown to U.S. intelligence. Over the years, Soviet engineer Adolf Tolkachev handed over tens of thousands of pages of secrets, allowing America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar. Hoffman's compelling account unfolds like an espionage thriller.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-621).
Table of contents: title: Map; title: Prologue; title: Out of the Wilderness; title: Moscow Station; title: A Man Called Sphere; title: "Finally I have reached you"; title: "A dissident at heart"; title: Six Figures; title: Spy Camera; title: Windfalls and Hazards; title: The Billion Dollar Spy; title: Flight of Utopia; title: Going Black; title: Devices and Desires; title: Tormented by the Past; title: "Everything is dangerous"; title: Not Caught Alive; title: Seeds of Betrayal; title: Vanquish; title: Selling Out; title: Without Warning; title: On the Run; title: "For freedom"; title: Epilogue; title: A Note on the Intelligence; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes.