| International Standard Book Number |
9798897101719
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| Personal Name |
Kerbaj, Richard, author.
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| Title Statement |
The defector : the untold story of the KGB agent who saved MI5 and changed the Cold War / Richard Kerbaj.
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| Edition Statement |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Pegasus Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
x, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-325) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- The walk-in -- A promising recruit -- This man has come to discredit me -- The betrayal -- The export agency -- Watching the watchers -- Spycatcher -- The KGB's rulebook on extramarital affairs -- A suspicious walk-in -- No way back -- Operation foot -- The fallout -- 'What reports?' -- Epilogue: Different reset, same outcome.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin agents within British and American intelligence services, the paranoia that ensued, and how the actions of a genuine turncoat, the former KGB officer Oleg Lyalin, and the secrets he revealed resulted in one of the most dramatic and pivotal moments in the Cold War. Lyalin led MI5 to rethink its relationship with the CIA. And his defection discredited a previous KGB defector, Anatoly Golitsyn, the darling of the CIA, and ultimately destroyed the reputation of the US agency's head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton. At the heart of Lyalin's story is a narrative entwined with lies, disinformation, Kremlin deception campaigns, intelligence failures by the CIA and MI5, and a tangled love life. Told in full here, for the first time, by one of this country's leading commentators on national security, it reveals how during the darkest moments of the Cold War one of the West's greatest achievements transpired as a result of MI5's break with the CIA. The disclosure of the inside story of this historic event also comes at a time when there is a renewed interest in the relationship between transatlantic spy services—from the intelligence they share or hold back to the way they respond to their political masters and stand up to threats from Russia." -- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Lyalin, Oleg.
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| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
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| Subject |
Great Britain. MI5.
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| Subject |
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Defectors Great Britain Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Defectors Soviet Union Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cold War Military intelligence Soviet Union.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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