02907cam a2200397 i 4500 543668646 TxAuBib 20211216120000.0 210910s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021034277 9781250274663 1250274664 TxAuBib rda Tate, Tim,. Agent Sniper [ANF] : the Cold War superagent and the ruthless head of the CIA / Tim Tate. First U.S. Edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. xvi, 398 pages [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prelude: 4 January 1961 -- Introduction -- 'Sniper' -- The Intelligence Gap -- 'Dear Mr Director' -- London -- Stockholm -- Tel Aviv -- Munich -- Washington -- Warsaw -- Berlin -- Flight -- Reverberations -- Oldenburg -- 'Betrayal of the Homeland' -- LAMBDA 1 -- Felfe -- Glory Days -- Monster -- HR 5507 -- Downfall -- Exposed -- Dirty Tricks -- Romanoff -- Support -- Wilderness -- TELETECHNIK -- Mole Hunts -- Double Eagle -- Who Really Was Michaleniewski? "The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind the Iron Curtain. In January 1961, he abandoned his wife and children and made a dramatic defection across divided Berlin with his East German mistress to the safety of American territory. There, he exposed more than 1600 Soviet bloc agents operating undercover in the West-more than any single spy in history. A never-before-told story, Tim Tate's Agent Sniper is a crackling page-turner that takes readers back to the post-war world and a time when no one was what they seemed"-- Provided by publisher. 20211216. Goleniewski, Michal, 1922-1993. Poland Urzd Bezpieczestwa History 20th century. Soviet Union Komitet gosudarstvenno頢ezopasnosti History 20th century. United States Central Intelligence Agency History 20th century. United States Federal Bureau of Investigation History 20th century. Great Britain MI5 History 20th century. Spies Poland History 20th century. Defectors United States. Cold war. TXGPL