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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Group: The Spy and the Traitor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of The Spy and the Traitor by Ben
 Macintyre. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk and in our
 eLibrary.\n\nWe will meet in-person in the Reading Room. Please register if
 you would like to receive a reminder.\n\n"Oleg Gordievsky was a spy like no
 other. The product of a KGB family and the best Soviet institutions\, the
 savvy\, sophisticated Russian eventually saw the lies and terror of the
 regime for what they were\, a realization that turned him irretrievably
 toward the West. His KGB career took flight in Copenhagen in 1966 and
 eventually brought him to the highest post in the KGB's London station--but
 throughout that time he was secretly working for MI6\, the British
 intelligence service. Gordievsky was a spy of tremendous consequence. As
 the Cold War heated up in the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher\,
 he provided critical information that foiled Soviet plots\, exposed spies
 in the West\, and ultimately avoided catastrophic nuclear escalation
 between the great powers. When Thatcher declared in 1984 that Mikhail
 Gorbachev was "a man one could do business with\," it was largely because
 of information provided by Gordievsky. No Western country had ever run a
 spy so high up in Russian intelligence\, which is why M16 fiercely guarded
 Gordievsky's identity\, even from the CIA. But the American spy agency was
 bent on discovering the British source\, unaware that their head of
 counterintelligence--Aldrich Ames--was secretly spying for the Soviets. A
 riveting story of intrigue set in the Cold War's twilight\, [this book]
 sounds frightening echoes of today\, when Russian spies are once again
 front-page headlines and superpower conflict dominates the globe. Writing
 with deep access to all of the key players in a drama that has never before
 been fully revealed\, Ben Macintyre has produced a masterpiece of narrative
 nonfiction\, a thrilling tale of impossibly high stakes and one man's brave
 gamble on his belief in democracy and freedom."--Jacket.\n\nThe son of two
 KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions\, Oleg
 Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and
 philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and
 became the Soviet Union's top man in London\, but from 1973 on he was
 secretly working for MI6. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close\, MI6
 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA\, which in
 turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously
 top-level source. The CIA officer assigned to identify him was Aldrich
 Ames\, who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. --
 adapted from jacket.\nRegistration Required: please visit the library
 calendar to register.
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