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02502aim a2200361 i 4500 001 A2EEE44AF19811EA805CF66A3EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200908010024 007 sd 008 200130s2020|||||||||n||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1549148052 020 $a 9781549148057 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Russo, Gus. 245 1 $a Best of Enemies / $c by Gus Russo. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Indianapolis, IN : $b Distributed by TEI Landmark Audio, $c 2020. 300 $a 10 sound discs (11.5 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact disc media. 511 1 $a Read by Robert Petkoff. 520 $a In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends blood brothers. Theirs is a friendship that never should have happened, and their story is chock full of treachery, darkly comic misunderstandings, bureaucratic inanity, the Russian Mafia, and landmark intelligence breakthroughs of the past half century.In Best of Enemies, two espionage cowboys reveal how they became key behind the scenes players in solving some of the most celebrated spy stories of the twentieth century, including the crucial discovery of the Soviet mole Robert Hanssen, the 2010 Spy Swap which freed Gennady from Soviet imprisonment, and how Robert De Niro played a real life role in helping Gennady stay alive during his incarceration in Russia after being falsely accused of spying for the Americans. Through their eyes, we see the distinctions between the Russian and American methods of conducting espionage and the painful birth of the new Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, dreams he can roll back to the ideals of the old USSR. 541 $d 20200210. 650 4 $a Russia & the Former Soviet Union. 650 7 $a Espionage. 650 4 $a United States - 20th Century. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 700 $a Petkoff, Robert. 710 $a TEI Landmark Audio. 710 $a Not Avail. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l UKPD911 $d 20200908011301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2EEE44AF19811EA805CF66A3EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search