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384 pages, Hardcover
First published September 18, 2018
Paranoia is born of propaganda, ignorance, secrecy, and fear.
Why does anyone spy? Why, in particular, would someone join one intelligence service and then switch loyalty to an opposing one?
For many years, the KGB used the acronym MICE to identify the four mainspring of spying: Money, Ideology, Coercion, and Ego.
"My new role gave a point to my existence." That role, [Gordievsky] believed, was nothing less than undermining the Soviet system, in a Manichaean struggle between good and evil that would eventually bring democracy to Russia and allow Russians to live freely, read what they wanted, and listen to Bach.
Spies tend to make extravagant claims for their craft, but the reality of espionage is that it frequently makes little lasting difference.
Yet very occasionally spies have a profound impact on history. The pantheon of world-changing spies is small and select, and Oleg Gordievsky is in it.
The KGB was watching him. The spy was being spied upon by his fellow spies.
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