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The Liar

- How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man
Af: Benjamin Cunningham Engelsk Hardback

The Liar

- How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man
Af: Benjamin Cunningham Engelsk Hardback
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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow
 
In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War.
 
Shunning a low profile, the Koechers embraced Manhattan’s high life—with cocaine, swinging, and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana, who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer who relayed messages to Karel’s handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt unstoppable. But it was too good to last.
 
Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end.

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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow
 
In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War.
 
Shunning a low profile, the Koechers embraced Manhattan’s high life—with cocaine, swinging, and parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana, who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a sophisticated international diamond dealer who relayed messages to Karel’s handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt unstoppable. But it was too good to last.
 
Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9781541700796
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1541700791
Kategori: True Crime fortællinger
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 2022
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 2022
Forfatter(e): Benjamin Cunningham
Forfatter(e) Benjamin Cunningham

Kategori True Crime fortællinger

ISBN-13 9781541700796

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 161mm

Udg. Dato 15 sep 2022

Oplagsdato 15 sep 2022

Forlag PublicAffairs,U.S.