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Operation Whisper : The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen by Barnes
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- 9781611688092
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dartmouth College
ISBN-10
1611688094
ISBN-13
9781611688092
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219171251
Product Key Features
Book Title
Operation Whisper : the Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Number of Pages
338 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Espionage, Intelligence & Espionage, Modern / 20th Century, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-043614
Reviews
Carr's book is painstakingly researched, and his use of sources constitutes his greatest strength. As a part of his research, he managed to have the Cohens' FBI file declassified, which he uses to a great degree as his story builds to a climax with their eventual capture. Carr notes in his Introduction that other authors have written about the Cohens/Krogers but never within the same book. Indeed, his recounting of his quest to follow the American Cohens to the British archives is intriguing., Journalist Carr meticulously documents the astonishing life and times of these anything but average Americans. He vividly evokes the tedium and deceit, interspersed with bursts of terror, that make up the life of a spy. Fans of fictional and true espionage, and readers interested in the history of the 20th-century communist movement and the Cold War, will enjoy this intricate chronicle., The Cohens were the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, and vanished under the FBI's nose, turning up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. This is their story.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
327.47073092/2
Table Of Content
Preface * Introduction: The Long Twilight Struggle * PART I: RECRUITS * Security Matter C * Student Radical * Spain Calling * Dangerous Crossing * The Elite of the Internationals * Code Name Luis * PART II: PROFESSIONALS * Volunteer Activated * Ghouls and Dead Doubles * The Agent Who Never Was * A Balance of Terror * Mission to Albuquerque * All Networks Blown * A Grave Situation * Agents on the Run * PART III: MASTERS * Whispers of Suspicion * House of Secrets * Lock, Stock, and Barrel * A Macbeth Moment * A Most Disgraceful Case * Swaps and a Daring Escape * Afterword * Acknowledgments * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Synopsis
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note: Go now. Leave the lights on, walk out, don't look back. Born and raised in the Bronx and recruited to play football at Mississippi State, Morris Cohen fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and with the U.S. Army in World War II. He and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they'd spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union. And not just any military secrets, but a complete working plan of the first atomic bomb, smuggled direct from Los Alamos to their Soviet handler in New York. Their associates Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who accomplished far less, had just been arrested, and the prosecutor wanted the death penalty. Did the Cohens wish to face the same fate? Federal agents were in the neighborhood, knocking on doors, getting close. So get out. Take nothing. Tell no one. In Operation Whisper, Barnes Carr tells the full, true story of the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, a pair who vanished under the FBI's nose only to turn up posing as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. The Cohens were talented, dedicated, worldly spies--an urbane, jet-set couple loyal to their service and their friends, and very good at their work. Most people they met seemed to think they represented the best of America. The Soviets certainly thought so.
LC Classification Number
UB271.R92K733 2016
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