{"product_id":"cold-war-counterfeit-spies-tales-of-espionage-genuine-or-bogus-9781399075091","title":"Cold War Counterfeit Spies: Tales of Espionage - Genuine or Bogus?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nigel West\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Frontline Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Frontline Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Intelligence \u0026amp; Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cold War, with its air of mutual fear and distrust and the shadowy world of spies and secret agents, gave publishers the chance to produce countless stories of espionage, treachery and deception. What Nigel West has discovered is that the most egregious deceptions were in fact the stories themselves. In this remarkable investigation into the claims of many who portrayed themselves as key players in clandestine operations, the author has exposed a catalog of misrepresentations and falsehoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid Greville Wynne really exfiltrate a GRU defector from Odessa? Was the frogman Buster Crabb abducted during a mission in Portsmouth harbor? Did the KGB run a close-guarded training facility, as described by J. Bernard Hutton in \u003ci\u003eSchool for Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was modeled on a typical town in the American mid-west, so agents could be acclimatized to a non-Soviet environment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of witnesses with first-hand experience, and recently declassified documents, Nigel West answers these and other fascinating questions from a time when secrecy and suspicion allowed the truth to be concealed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frontline Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45037344129175,"sku":"9781399075091","price":1332.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399075091.webp?v=1769214731","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cold-war-counterfeit-spies-tales-of-espionage-genuine-or-bogus-9781399075091","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}