The Resource Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War, Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall
Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War, Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall
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The item Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War, Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
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- Summary
- "The story of two Cold War spies - CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko - and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century. In BEST OF ENEMIES, two espionage cowboys reveal how they became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life role in helping Gennady stay alive during his incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the distinctions between the Russian and American methods of conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll back to the ideals of the old USSR."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Apprentice spies
- All roads lead to Washington
- Contact
- Musketeers
- The IOC
- The quisling
- Softly, softly, catchee monkey
- Havana takedown
- Sasha
- An old enemy
- A second reunion
- Going public
- A heavy box of caviar
- Calm before the storm
- You don't know me
- The Gulag redux
- Rest: the red button
- End games
- Isbn
- 9781538761311
- Label
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Title
- Best of enemies
- Title remainder
- the last great spy story of the Cold War
- Statement of responsibility
- Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall
- Subject
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- Espionage -- Soviet Union -- History
- Espionage -- United States -- History
- History
- Male friendship
- Male friendship
- Platt, Jack, 1936-2017
- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union, Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Biography
- Spies -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Vasilenko, Gennady, 1941-
- Spies
- Employees
- Espionage
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The story of two Cold War spies - CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Genya Vasilenko - and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends-blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century. In BEST OF ENEMIES, two espionage cowboys reveal how they became key behind-the-scenes players in solving some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real-life role in helping Gennady stay alive during his incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the distinctions between the Russian and American methods of conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll back to the ideals of the old USSR."--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Russo, Gus
- Dewey number
- 327.1247073092/2
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UB271.U5
- LC item number
- R87 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Dezenhall, Eric
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Platt, Jack
- Vasilenko, Gennady
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Spies
- Spies
- Spies
- Espionage
- Espionage
- Male friendship
- Employees
- Espionage
- Male friendship
- Spies
- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Label
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War, Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-321) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Apprentice spies -- All roads lead to Washington -- Contact -- Musketeers -- The IOC -- The quisling -- Softly, softly, catchee monkey -- Havana takedown -- Sasha -- An old enemy -- A second reunion -- Going public -- A heavy box of caviar -- Calm before the storm -- You don't know me -- The Gulag redux -- Rest: the red button -- End games
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781538761311
- Lccn
- 2017056747
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1019841610
- (OCoLC)on1019841610
- Label
- Best of enemies : the last great spy story of the Cold War, Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-321) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Apprentice spies -- All roads lead to Washington -- Contact -- Musketeers -- The IOC -- The quisling -- Softly, softly, catchee monkey -- Havana takedown -- Sasha -- An old enemy -- A second reunion -- Going public -- A heavy box of caviar -- Calm before the storm -- You don't know me -- The Gulag redux -- Rest: the red button -- End games
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781538761311
- Lccn
- 2017056747
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1019841610
- (OCoLC)on1019841610
Subject
- Espionage -- Soviet Union -- History
- Espionage -- United States -- History
- History
- Male friendship
- Male friendship
- Platt, Jack, 1936-2017
- Russia (Federation)
- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union, Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Biography
- Spies -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Vasilenko, Gennady, 1941-
- Spies
- Employees
- Espionage
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