Dead doubles : the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings /

Barnes, Trevor, 1955-

Dead doubles : the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings / Trevor Barnes. - First U.S. edition. - xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-316) and index.

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.

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.

9780062856999 0062856995


Lonsdale, Gordon Arnold, 1924-1970.
Kroger, Peter.
Kroger, Helen.


Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoÄ­ bezopasnosti.


Espionage, Soviet--Great Britain.
Espionage, Soviet--United States.
Spies--Soviet Union.

Powered by Koha