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Title: Mole by William Hood ISBN: 0-393-01388-X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1982 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Engrossing account of early Cold war shenanigans
Comment: "Mole" was on the reading list for CIA applicants,* so i found it in the library & was hooked from page one. It is the account of the first Soviet agent to be turned by the CIA. It is the tale of a man in a perpetual state of fear & panic.
But if that's not satisfactory, there's the digressive account of the original model for James Bond: a Yugoslav by birth, assigned to spy on the Abwehr by the Soviets. In 1941, he arrives in America. His connection with Pearl Harbor & J. Edgar Hoover may leave you, like me, baffled forever: "How could they not know?
A book that unusual for the fact that it wasn't written to capitalize on current events. A very good account of the early post-WWII days in the espionage game.
*I didn't get the job.
Rating: 5
Summary: The real deal about espionage
Comment: Much has been written about spies, spy-craft and espionage. Little has been written by those actively engaged in the business. William Hood, the nom de plume of a retired CIA officer, gives his story of the first Soviet agent recruited by American intelligence during the Cold War. It is a fascinating, true-life tale. I would recommend this book exclusively on this point, yet there is more to the book than this. It is also a detailed and highly personal account of how spycraft is practiced, the mental and psychological toll this takes, and the risks involved (for both agent and controller). Because of this, I highly recommend this book. I have never read anything like it.
I would add that Hood provides a wealth of books of a similar vein (ie. accounts from intelligence field officers) that may also be of interest. It is without doubt an engrossing and intriguing read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Seemed Pretty Darn Real
Comment: Felt like I was in on the spy case. Very interesting and will undoubtably be a standard reference for those interested in the world's second oldest profession for years to come.
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Title: The Oxford Book of Spy Stories by Michael Cox ISBN: 0192832670 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Main Enemy : The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by James Risen, Milton Bearden ISBN: 0679463097 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by JOHN KEEGAN ISBN: 0375400532 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War by Jerrold L. Schecter, Peter S. Deriabin, Jerold L. Schecter ISBN: 1574880462 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Look over My Shoulder : A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency by William Hood, Richard Helms ISBN: 037550012X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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