The Billion Dollar Spy : (Record no. 7108)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781785783524 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E840.8 .T65 |
| Item number | H699 2018 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hoffman, David E., |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Billion Dollar Spy : |
| Remainder of title | a true story of cold war espionage and betrayal / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | David E. Hoffman. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | paperback edition in UK 2018 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Icon Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 391 Pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations, map ; |
| Dimensions | 20 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Map -- Prologue -- Out of the Wilderness -- Moscow Station -- A Man Called Sphere -- "Finally I have reached you" -- "A dissident at heart" -- Six Figures -- Spy Camera -- Windfalls and Hazards -- The Billion Dollar Spy -- Flight of Utopia -- Going Black -- Devices and Desires -- Tormented by the Past -- "Everything is dangerous" -- Not Caught Alive -- Seeds of Betrayal -- Vanquish -- Selling Out -- Without Warning -- On the Run -- "For freedom" -- Epilogue -- A Note on the Intelligence. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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 open the secret Soviet military research establishment, using his access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of material about the latest advances in aviation technology, alerting the Americans to possible developments years in the future. He was one of the most productive and valuable spies ever to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union. Tolkachev took enormous personal risks, but so did his CIA handlers. Moscow station was a dangerous posting to the KGB's backyard. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev became a singular breakthrough. With hidden cameras and secret codes, and in face-to-face meetings with CIA case officers in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and the CIA worked to elude the feared KGB. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA, as well as interviews with participants, Hoffman reveals how the depredations of the Soviet state motivated one man to master the craft of spying against his own nation until he was betrayed to the KGB by a disgruntled former CIA trainee. No one has ever told this story before in such detail, and Hoffman's deep knowledge of spycraft, the Cold War, and military technology makes him uniquely qualified to bring readers this real-life espionage thriller" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Spies |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cold War. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Library of Congress Classification | General Collection | Rabdan Academy | Rabdan Academy | General Stacks | 09/01/2025 | Panworld | 35.40 | E840.8 .T65 H699 2018 | 23497 | 09/01/2025 | C. 1 | 09/01/2025 | Books | AED 35.40 |