Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness--A Soviet Spymaster
Place_Pub: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Paperbk Printing. 527, wraps, illus., footnotes, appendices, index, library stickers, sticker residue on front cover. Foreword by Robert Conquest. Pavel Sudoplatov served the KGB for over 50 years, at one point controlling more than 20, 000 guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess, " disavowing any criminal actions. He spent 15 years in prison, and 20 more in rehabilitation. This is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire. Condition: good, ex-lib.
Keywords: Espionage, Ethel Rosenberg, Katyn Forest, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, KGB, Anti-Semitism, Raoul Wallenberg
ISBN: 0316821152
[Book #52133]
Price: $27.50