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The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the Cia's Final Showdown With the KGB
Author: Milt Bearden, James Risen
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 06 May, 2003
ISBN: 0679463097
$19.01
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The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the Cia's Final Showdown With the KGB
by: Milt Bearden, James Risen
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0 
The Shadow Lifts...:
Espionage, especially that concerning the CIA and the KGB, is extraordinarily hard to write about in an understandable way. It is either cloaked in a still tight shroud of official secrecy, or is so complicated and personal that readers simply cannot grasp the inherent complexities of the world of international intelligence gathering. Milt Bearden, a well known CIA official who has written on these matters for the last few years finally puts his fascinating life down on paper. His career in the 1980's and... more info
The CIA KGB Game:
This is the story gathered through hundreds of interviews with both US and USSR players of the battle between the CIA and KGB in the closing days of the Cold War, 1985 through the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Part I, Year of the Spy tells of the efforts to "turn" KGB agents, Government officials and high-ranking military and subsequent contacts by their American controllers. We're told of the constant surveillance of embassy officials, the training of new agents, tricks for eluding tails. Surprising to... more info
I LOVE SPY BOOKS:
This is another terrific spy book that is worth reading. Was completeley drawn in by this one !!! Another Cold War era book I would recommend is the one by Benjamin Weiser titled " A Secret Life" about a Polish Colonel ( Ryszard Kuklinski ) on the Polish General Staff who passed on some 40,000 Warsaw Pact and Soviet documents to the CIA from 1972 to 1981.
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