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(4.43) | 1 | Operation Solo is America's greatest spy story. For 27 years, Morris Childs, code name "Agent 58", provided the United States with the Kremlin's innermost secrets. Repeatedly risking his life, "Agent 58" made 57 clandestine missions into the Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, and Cuba. Because of his high ranking in the American communist party and his position as editor of its official paper, the Daily Worker, he was treated like royalty by communist leaders such as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Mao Tse-tung. Through first-hand accounts, Operation Solo tells the story of the conflicts within the FBI and American intelligence about the operation, and howthe FBI, through extraordinary measures, managed to keep that operation hidden from everyone, including the CIA.… (més) |
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Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua. This book is dedicated to all who contributed to Operation SOLO and kept it secret. Specifically, it is dedicated to Morris Childs, Eva Childs, Jack Childs, Alexander Burlinson, Carl Freyman, Walter Boyle, John Langtry, James Fox, and Ivian Smith, all of whom represented the United States federal Bureau of Investigation. By their deeds, all exhibited a shared conviction: "Freedom never comes free. Freedom at any price always is a bargain."  | |
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This was the only American spy who could meet with top Soviet and Chinese leaders as their man in the USA. His discoveries and insights helped the US to understand the very scary minds of 20th century communist. (