Codename: Hero: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation by Jeremy Duns
Codename: Hero: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation

Jeremy Duns

Codename: Hero: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation

Jeremy Duns

368 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative tense medium-paced

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MI6 and the CIA came to believe Penkovsky was genuine and so the two agencies decided to run the operation jointly. It ran right through the Berlin crisis -- in an astonishing near-miss, Penkovsky learned that the Wall was going to be built four d...

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