The first counterspy : Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI's attempt to capture a Soviet mole / Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: iv, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781493061563
- 1493061569
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 327.1273 H112 | Available | 33111010828388 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
During World War II, the FBI suspected that high Soviet official Andrei Schevchenko was a spy, though he was in the United States as a "legal agent" buying Bell Aviation's warplanes for Russia's struggle against Nazi invaders. FBI agents persuaded Larry Haas, a Bell aviation engineer, to let himself be seduced into revealing carefully doctored intelligence that Schevchenko was seeking about Bell's top-secret P-59 jet warplane. The FBI also recruited the head librarian at Bell's technical library for the same task. The FBI eventually discovered that Schevchenko was operating a wide-ranging spy network hidden within a large segment of the American aviation industry. After nearly two years of surveillance and delivering incriminating material to Schevchenko, however, what Washington did was surprising: it blocked the FBI from apprehending him, since embarrassing the Soviet Union, a wartime ally, was seen as unwise. Book jacket.
"The First Counterspy is the story of spy, counterspy, and an American family"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-364) and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Seduction and Betrayal -- Part 2. Lethal Consequences -- Epilogue: Home Safe and Final Days -- A Personal Note / from Kay Haas.