The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story

by Robert J. Lamphere

Book Overview

A memoir of former FBI special agent Lamphere's involvement in the post World War II spook sweep in the US, reading like a slice of Cold War history with a generous dash of John Le Carre spy intrigue.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394541510
• ISBN13: 9780394541518
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Special Agent Indeed!

This book is very difficult to put down once started. It amazes one to realize that one special agent, in a 14 year career, was involved in cracking the KGB code, identifying Klaus Fuchs as a spy, and bringing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and their ring to justice. Robert J. Lamphere's book moves along quickly, and treats the investigations in sufficient detail without becoming dull. And having rubbed shoulders with J. Edgar Hoover, James Angleton, and British double agent Kim Philby, his first person reminiscences are fascinating. This is history that leaps off the page.