{"product_id":"deceiving-the-deceivers-kim-philby-donald-maclean-and-guy-burgess-9780300191462","title":"Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. J. Hamrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the more sensational espionage cases of the Cold War were those of Moscow's three British spies--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. In this riveting book, S. J. Hamrick draws on documentary evidence concealed for almost half a century in reconstructing the complex series of 1947-1951 events that led British intelligence to identify all three as Soviet agents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBasing his argument primarily on the Venona archive of broken Soviet codes released in 1995-1996 as well as on complementary Moscow and London sources, Hamrick refutes the myth of MI5's identification of Maclean as a Soviet agent in the spring of 1951. British intelligence knew far earlier that Maclean was Moscow's agent and concealed that knowledge in a 1949-1951 counterespionage operation that deceived Philby and Burgess. Hamrick also introduces compelling evidence of a 1949-1950 British disinformation initiative using Philby to mislead Moscow on Anglo-American retaliatory military capability in the event of Soviet aggression in Western Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngagingly written and impressively documented, \u003ci\u003eDeceiving the Deceivers\u003c\/i\u003e breaks\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003enew ground in reinterpreting the final espionage years of three infamous spies and in clarifying fifty years of conjecture, confusion, and error in Anglo-American intelligence history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46895960031383,"sku":"9780300191462","price":4050.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300191462.webp?v=1770356293","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deceiving-the-deceivers-kim-philby-donald-maclean-and-guy-burgess-9780300191462","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}