Dimensions
130 x 198 x 20mm
Soviet Spies in the Cities of the World
Diplomats, journalists, translators - KGB agents everywhere, always on the lookout for potential recruits and secrets. But if you think spies were only involved in high level operations, and deals with major foreign agents, think again. In this book Soviet intelligence officers reveal for the first time what their lives were really like spying in the cities of the world.
The KGB was not always a perfect functioning machine. Spies devoted much of their lives to trawling for informants, emptying deadletter drops, avoiding bugs and fooling the counter-intelligence services of their host countries. Neither heroes nor villians, the agents were men who risked freedom, sometimes their lives, in work that also offered tedious routine and few perks. Their stories deflate an over-romanticised profession and show that Moscow's most fearsome spies were human beings too.
