The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: | 9780465096602 |
Publisher: | Basic Books |
Published: | 6 December, 2016 |
Format: | eBook - EPUB |
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The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
Serhii Plokhy
In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of Aleksandr Shelepin, one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders. Stashinsky's testimony, implicating the Kremlin rulers in political ass
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