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Blackfin (Nuclear submarine) Cold War Espionage, American Espionage, American History 20th century Espionage, American Soviet Union History Soviet Union Foreign relations United States United States United States Foreign relations Soviet Union United States. Central Intelligence Agency History 20th century United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Favreau, Marc
Summary: "An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 327.1273 FAV1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 327.1273 FAV
Sasgen, Peter T.
Summary: The untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities then knew anything about these top-secret missions, now known as the U.S. Navy's "silent service." Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.93 SASLichtblau, Eric.
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 324.1 LICAnderson, Scott
Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 ANDHancock, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.704 HANBurrows, William E.
Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BURGill, Jonathan
Summary: The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent. Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORROS, BORIS GILHoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)
Summary: "While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HOFWheen, Francis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBS/PublicAffairs 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.827 WHEMacintyre, Ben
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy EnglishCotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020