For half a century, the US and the Soviet Union stood locked in a deadly dance, each shadowing the other's moves, meticulously plotting assaults and subversions that spanned the globe from Hong Kong to Kabul, Moscow to Washington DC. The Main Enemy tells, for the first time, the inside story of the climactic secret battles between the CIA and the KGB in the closing days of the Cold War, through the eyes of the American and Russian spies who fought them, with the full co-operation of dozens of senior intelligence officials from both sides. Milt Bearden, a legend in espionage circles ran operations in Afghanistan from the field, training Afghan freedom fighters. This is the story of six key figures, trained as spies in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, who took control of the CIA and KGB just as Reagan and Gorbachev rose to power in the 1980s. This is a true story of clandestine operations take them from inside the Vatican and on the back streets of Baghdad and Kabul, Afghanistan, leading to the horror of September 11th. With cyanide capsules in pens, double and triple agents, ambushes and betrayals, The Main Enemy is a dramatic, roller-coaster ride through the last days of the Cold War.

The Main Enemy : The Secret Story of the Cia's Bloodiest Battle

Politics & Social Sciences

James Risen

Politics & Government

Century Hutchinson*

State of War

History

Americas

Free Press

The dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, the book tells of the clandestine operations they masterminded. Bearden led America to victory in the secret war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, & reveals what he did & whom America backed, & why. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions that swept across Eastern Europe & the implosion of the Soviet Union. Laced with startling revelations -- about fail-safe top-secret back channels between the CIA & KGB, double & triple agents, covert operations in Berlin & Prague, & the fateful autumn of 1989 -- this is history at its action-packed best. Photos.

Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA s Final Showdown with the KGB

Milt Bearden

Military

Random House, NY

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

Pocket_Books

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely.
Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses—and until this audiobook, it has worked very hard to cover them up.
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR authorized the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. Presidents Bush and Obama now must face their own reckoning. Power corrupts, but it is endless war that corrupts absolutely.

Pay Any Price

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The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB

Milton Bearden

Random House]

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