Dead doubles : the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings /
An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Who's who and code-names
- Note on the KGB
- MI5: Who's who of the Portland spy case
- Prologue
- Part one: Investigation. Code-name 'Reverberate' ; Code-name 'Last Act' ; Code-name 'Killjoys' ; Code-name 'Sniper'
- Part two: Morris and Lona Cohen. The FBI hunt for the Cohens
- Part three: Trial. 'One of the most disgraceful cases to come before this court'
- Part four: Inquest. Anatomy of a spy scandal
- Part five: Prison and spy swaps. Gordon Lonsdale ; The Krogers ; Houghton and Gee
- Part six: Russian versions of the truth. Konon Molody in Moscow ; Konon Molody--the spy ; The Cohens in Moscow ; The Cohens as spies ; Houghton and Gee--life after prison ; Houghton and Gee as spies
- Epilogue.