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From Warsaw with love : Polish spies, the CIA, and the forging of an unlikely alliance /

In 1990, less than a year after the Polish people participated in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Polish government sent a veteran spy, who had battled the West for decades, to rescue six American officers trapped in Baghdad. The CIA had asked the Polish government for hel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pomfret, John, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
Spies > Poland > History > 20th century.
Poland > Politics and government > History > 20th century.
Espionage, Polish > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > History > 20th century.
Poland > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Poland.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
Politics and government.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one: cold war capers
  • Tinseltown espionage
  • Tennis anyone?
  • The American bear
  • True confessions
  • The Bridge of Spies
  • Part two: an unlikely alliance
  • Playing footsie
  • The bear comes knocking
  • Shall we dance
  • Don't blow It up
  • Part three: perilous partnership
  • Baghdad surprise
  • No exit
  • Didn't Get the Memo
  • The floodgates open
  • Slouching toward NATO
  • The Prime Minister is a spy!
  • Missing Bin Laden
  • Black site bargain
  • Betrayed
  • Under the bus
  • Part four: marriage with hippos
  • Same bed, different dreams
  • What Is to be done?
  • Afterword.