Spy Trader: Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War

Wolfgang Vogel was one of the most legendary of the mysterious figures of the Cold War. A meticulous East German lawyer, Vogel moved effortlessly through the Iron Curtain, & masterfully manipulated the back-channel world of spy trading & other covert deals between East & West. Whitney uses Vogel s secretive career to create a fascinating, unique view of the Cold War -- the forces that created it, ended it, & ultimately made Vogel a pariah in the new era that followed. Here, Vogel goes public for the first time with the full story of his negotiations on scores of cases from Rudolf Abel & Francis Gary Powers in 1962 to Anatoly Shcharansky in 1986.