Tumanov; Confessions of a KGB Agent

Chicago, IL: edition q, inc., 1993. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. x, 187 pages. Illustrations. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Some edge soiling. Foreword by Henno Lohmeyer. In his foreword, edition q editor-in-chief Henno Lohmeyer wonders whether ``the KGB was guiding the author's hand.'' Readers on their part will speculate that Tumanov, who emerges as preening and self-important, has so little of substance to say because he was a transmitter of low-level intelligence. The book lobbies for shutting down Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe--a debate that garnered attention these past months before congress approved funding for the Board of International Broadcasting, the independent agency under whose aegis the station now operates. Tumanov maintains that he was a KGB plant at the station; after his staged defection from the U.S.S.R. in 1965, he settled in Munich and worked at Radio Liberty. In 1969, this sleeper agent was activated; by the time he was recalled home and retired in 1986, he had become news editor. [from Publisher's Weekly]. The true story of a KGB spy who posed as a defector to the West. Foreword by Henno Lohmeyer. The translator, David Floyd, was also a Soviet intelligence asset. He was a Communist at Oxford and during WWII served as a translator at several British embassies. His involvement in espionage was concealed for decades by the British Intelligence services. Mr. Floyd died in 1997. Condition: Very good / Good.

Keywords: KGB, Defectors, Espionage, Spies, Radio Liberty, Dissident, Arabella, Cold War, Propaganda, East Berlin, CIA, Fifth Directorate, Henno Lohmeyer, Leonid Finkelstein, Nechiporenko

ISBN: 9780867152692

[Book #60825]

Price: $45.00

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