Spies in the family : an American spymaster, his Russian crown jewel, and the friendship that helped end the Cold War
Dillon, Eva2017
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In the summer of 1975, 17-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed that her father was a U.S. State Department employee. She had no idea that he was handling the CIA's highest-ranking double agent, Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov. Dillon's father and Polyakov had a close friendship that went back years, to their first meeting in Burma in the mid-1960s. At the height of the Cold War, the Russian offered the CIA an unfiltered view into the vault of Soviet intelligence. His collaboration helped ensure that tensions between the two nuclear superpowers did not escalate into a shooting war. This book is a deeply researched account of two families on opposite sides of the lethal espionage campaigns of the Cold War, and two men whose devoted friendship lasted a lifetime, until the devastating final days of their lives.
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Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York, NY : Harper, 2017.
Collation:
xvi, 327 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780062385888 (hbk)
Dewey class:
327.120922327.12
LC class:
UB270
Language:
English
Subject:
Dillon, Eva -- FamilyPoli︠a︡kov, D. F. (Dmitriĭ Fedorovich), 1921-1988Dillon, Paul Leo, 1926-1980Spies -- Soviet Union -- BiographySpies -- United States -- BiographyCold WarBiographyUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet UnionSoviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United StatesPolitics and Government
BRN:
1927448