Agent Link

The Spy Erased from History

AvRaymond J. Batvinis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History is a biography of William Wolfe Weisband who one colleague described as a “charter member” of America’s top-secret Cold War codebreaking pioneers. Every day for years he worked with cryptanalysts as they struggled to tease out secrets from a mind-numbing jumble of numbers. As breakthroughs emerged, codebreakers sought his help for insights and meanings before the startling revelations were passed to US policy makers. What no one knew, however, was that with every new breakthrough, Weisband was keeping his KGB masters informed about American progress. The Army Security Agency, NSA’s codebreaking predecessor, had simply swept the scandal under the rug. Government leaders said, “nothing about the case in public, and little in private either,” an NSA history recorded. America’s codebreaking hierarchy “simply wanted the case … to go away.” Weisband was air – brushed out of history and the new NSA organization wanted it kept that way. This one insider spy experts say “did greater damage to America’s national security” than later traitors like Jack Dunlap, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, and Ronald Pelton: even more than Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Weisband’s story has never been told. A half a century after his death, the mystery surrounding this man remains.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-15
Mått:151 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
Antal sidor:354
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538184905

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Mer om författaren

Raymond J. Batvinis is an author, lecturer, historian, retired FBI agent and former Professional Lecturer at The George Washington University. He holds a doctorate from The Catholic University of America and is the author of two previous books on the history of the FBI’s counterintelligence program.

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Raymond J. Batvinis is one of our great authorities on American counterintelligence. But he is not merely a scholar. He is himself a former FBI Special Agent, a gifted investigator who learned how spies operate by catching them. With his new book, Agent Link, he has brought to light an espionage tale that has been unjustly forgotten. William Weisband was a roguish American who became perhaps the most valuable double agent ever to work in the service of the KGB. Batvinis lays out the full story in all its noirish glory, presenting the reader with a gripping narrative full of character and incident. Hollywood, are you listening?

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsReader’s NotePrologueChapter 1: LiesChapter 2: HotelsChapter 3: Double LivesChapter 4: A Washington CommitteeChapter 5: ZeroChapter 6: Radio SchoolChapter 7: PollockChapter 8: FailureChapter 9: BlerioChapter 10: Brooks and WernerChapter 11: Coos CountyChapter 12: Needle and LinkChapter 13: SoldierChapter 14: FarmChapter 15: ETOChapter 16: RendezvousChapter 17: Arlington HallChapter 18: Settling InChapter 19: DisasterChapter 20: Disaster Times Two Chapter 21: Top-Secret CreamChapter 22: Charter MemberChapter 23: MabelChapter 24: Jimmy’s PlaceChapter 25: Top Secret GlintChapter 26: Big StuffChapter 27: The Jewels in the AmberChapter 28: Strange OdysseyChapter 29: Vladimir ArrivesChapter 30: CatastropheChapter 31: ReckoningChapter 32: Face OffChapter 33: FlightChapter 34: AftermathChapter 35: EndgameChapter 36: EpilogueBibliography