116 records matched your query
04573aam a2200577 i 4500 001 26FEB90E5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211217010126 008 210910t20212021nyua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2021034277 020 $a 1250274664 020 $a 9781250274663 035 $a (OCoLC)1268545412 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TOH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCO $d ORX $d ZHI $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a n-us--- $a e-uk--- 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Tate, Tim, $e author. 245 10 $a Agent Sniper : $b the Cold War superagent and the ruthless head of the CIA / $c Tim Tate. 246 30 $a Cold War superagent and the ruthless head of the CIA 250 $a First U.S. Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind the Iron Curtain. In January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children and made a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of American territory. There, he exposed more than 1600 Soviet bloc agents operating undercover in the West-more than any single spy in history. The CIA called Goleniewski "one of the West's most valuable counterintelligence sources," but in late 1963, he was abandoned by the US government because of a split in the agency over questions about his mental stability and his trustworthiness. Goleniewski bears some of the blame for his troubled legacy. He made baseless assertions about his record, notably that he was the first to expose Kim Philby. He also bizarrely claimed to be Tsarevich Aleksei Romanoff, heir to the Russian Throne who had miraculously survived the 1918 massacre of his family. For more than fifty years, American and British intelligence services have sought to erase Goleniewski from the history of Cold War espionage. The vast bulk of his once-substantial CIA and MI5 files remain closed. Only fragments of his material crop up in the de-classified dossiers on the KGB spies he exposed or the memoirs of CIA officers who dealt with him. A never-before-told story, Tim Tate's Agent Sniper is a crackling page-turner that takes readers back to the post-war world and a time when no one was what they seemed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prelude: 4 January 1961 -- Introduction -- 'Sniper' -- The Intelligence Gap -- 'Dear Mr Director' -- London -- Stockholm -- Tel Aviv -- Munich -- Washington -- Warsaw -- Berlin -- Flight -- Reverberations -- Oldenburg -- 'Betrayal of the Homeland' -- LAMBDA 1 -- Felfe -- Glory Days -- Monster -- HR 5507 -- Downfall -- Exposed -- Dirty Tricks -- Romanoff -- Support -- Wilderness -- TELETECHNIK -- Mole Hunts -- Double Eagle -- Who Really Was MichaÅ Goleniewski? 600 10 $a Goleniewski, Michal, $d 1922-1993. 650 0 $a Spies $z Poland $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a Poland. $b UrznÌad BezpieczeaÌnstwa $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a Soviet Union. $b Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Defectors $z United States. 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a United States. $b Federal Bureau of Investigation $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b MI5 $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War. 941 $a 13 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710055635.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030118.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032530.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024621.0 952 $l OEPC877 $d 20220714112016.0 $m 327.12092 Tat 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20220615155331.0 $m 327.12 TAT 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20220510011154.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20220402012823.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20220402012556.0 952 $l HOPC845 $d 20220309011513.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220202010536.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220201012011.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211217010800.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26FEB90E5F0711ECA70E6FDD2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search