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Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight--The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring

Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight--The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring

Roland Perry
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The most damaging spy network of the Cold War--the Cambridge Spy Ring--was comprised of several powerful & influential British citizens & one American, Michael Straight. Born to a wealthy New England family, Straight attended Cambridge in the 30s & there fell in with the circle of young men working for Soviet intelligence: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt & Kim Philby, who was to become the most famous spy of the century. For the next several decades, he led a secret life. While working at the State Department, he passed intelligence reports to a Russian agent; while running the family magazine, The New Republic, he funded several communist fronts; & while serving presidents, including JFK & Nixon, he continued to meet with agents around the world. Despite his '63 confession to the FBI that his covert activity ceased in '41, investigative journalist & author Perry has unearthed a different story. Incorporating material from exclusive interviews with Straight, family members & former KGB agents , as well as archival research from the CIA, FBI & Soviet intelligence, Perry presents a complete portrait of the last of the Cold War spies.
Language
English
Pages
416
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Release
December 17, 2008

Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight--The Only American in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring

Roland Perry
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The most damaging spy network of the Cold War--the Cambridge Spy Ring--was comprised of several powerful & influential British citizens & one American, Michael Straight. Born to a wealthy New England family, Straight attended Cambridge in the 30s & there fell in with the circle of young men working for Soviet intelligence: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt & Kim Philby, who was to become the most famous spy of the century. For the next several decades, he led a secret life. While working at the State Department, he passed intelligence reports to a Russian agent; while running the family magazine, The New Republic, he funded several communist fronts; & while serving presidents, including JFK & Nixon, he continued to meet with agents around the world. Despite his '63 confession to the FBI that his covert activity ceased in '41, investigative journalist & author Perry has unearthed a different story. Incorporating material from exclusive interviews with Straight, family members & former KGB agents , as well as archival research from the CIA, FBI & Soviet intelligence, Perry presents a complete portrait of the last of the Cold War spies.
Language
English
Pages
416
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Release
December 17, 2008

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