Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. But it was in 1985 that cherkashin scored two of the kgbs biggestever coups. In april of that year, he recruited disgruntled cia officer aldrich ames and became his principal handler. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us.
The true story of the man who recruited robert hanssen and aldrich ames. Memoir of a kgb officer the true story of the man who recruited robert hanssen and aldrich ames by gregory feifer and victor cherkashin 2005. Memoir of a kgb officer, by victor cherkashin is an outstanding narrative of how former cia agent ames and how former fbi agent hanssen gave the kgb the mother lode of information on the united states intelligence efforts against the former soviet union. Victor cherkashin, a retired kgb counterintelligence ci officer, at first appears to have written a straightforward, unexceptional account of his life in the soviet service, with little of the scoresettling in which authors of such books often indulge. The true story of the man who recruited robert hanssen and aldrich ames by cherkashin, victor 9780465009695. The true story of the man who recruited robert hanssen and aldrich ames by victor cherkashin, gregory feifer online at alibris. Spy handler book chicago public library bibliocommons. But throughout the book, cherkashin proves his point, showing just how porous these agencies are and how operatives deftly remain effective as spies for both. While cherkashins relationships with ames and hanssen are explained, almost more intriguing is the picture he paints of a time when spying was predominantly a. In spy handler, cherkashin offers the complete account of how and why both americans turned against their country, and addresses the rumors of an undiscovered kgb spy another hanssen or amesstill at large in the u.
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