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Dry and somewhat dated true spy story.
The book revolves around Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, a major in Soviet intelligence, and his work for the CIA.
Whilst some of the content is interesting I found there was too much background history on both the characters involved and intelligence history.
Set at the time of “Harry Lime” in Vienna there’s some great vignettes but overall the story moves quite slowly and does read like a report rather than a factual account.
Good for an account of the early years o ...more
The book revolves around Pyotr Semyonovich Popov, a major in Soviet intelligence, and his work for the CIA.
Whilst some of the content is interesting I found there was too much background history on both the characters involved and intelligence history.
Set at the time of “Harry Lime” in Vienna there’s some great vignettes but overall the story moves quite slowly and does read like a report rather than a factual account.
Good for an account of the early years o ...more
William Hood, author of Mole, was CIA Operations Chief in Vienna in 1952 when he helped recruit Major Pyotr Popov, America’s first double agent in Soviet Military intelligence. Mole is Hood’s account of Popov’s four years working for the CIA, ending in 1956 when he was uncovered and returned to Moscow for interrogation in the cellars of Lubyanka Prison – kept alive to see if he could be doubled again, or executed. His fate was never known. This intimate, firsthand account of Cold War espionage i
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Sep 14, 2016
Nooilforpacifists
marked it as to-read
May 01, 2018
Adam
marked it as to-read
