Raymond J. Batvinis

Agent Link (eBook, PDF)

The Spy Erased from History

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Produktbeschreibung

Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History is a biography of William Wolfe Weisband who one colleague described as a "charter member" of America's top-secret Cold War codebreaking pioneers. Every day for years he worked with cryptanalysts as they struggled to tease out secrets from a mind-numbing jumble of numbers. As breakthroughs emerged, codebreakers sought his help for insights and meanings before the startling revelations were passed to US policy makers. What no one knew, however, was that with every new breakthrough, Weisband was keeping his KGB masters informed about American progress. The Army Security Agency, NSA's codebreaking predecessor, had simply swept the scandal under the rug. Government leaders said, "nothing about the case in public, and little in private either," an NSA history recorded. America's codebreaking hierarchy "simply wanted the case ... to go away." Weisband was air - brushed out of history and the new NSA organization wanted it kept that way. This one insider spy experts say "did greater damage to America's national security" than later traitors like Jack Dunlap, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, and Ronald Pelton: even more than Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Weisband's story has never been told. A half a century after his death, the mystery surrounding this man remains.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216332107
• Artikelnr.: 74841800

Autorenporträt

Raymond J. Batvinis is an author, lecturer, historian, retired FBI agent and former Professional Lecturer at The George Washington University. He holds a doctorate from The Catholic University of America and is the author of two previous books on the history of the FBI's counterintelligence program.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Reader's Note
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lies
Chapter 2: Hotels
Chapter 3: Double Lives
Chapter 4: A Washington Committee
Chapter 5: Zero
Chapter 6: Radio School
Chapter 7: Pollock
Chapter 8: Failure
Chapter 9: Blerio
Chapter 10: Brooks and Werner
Chapter 11: Coos County
Chapter 12: Needle and Link
Chapter 13: Soldier
Chapter 14: Farm
Chapter 15: ETO
Chapter 16: Rendezvous
Chapter 17: Arlington Hall
Chapter 18: Settling In
Chapter 19: Disaster
Chapter 20: Disaster Times Two
Chapter 21: Top-Secret Cream
Chapter 22: Charter Member
Chapter 23: Mabel
Chapter 24: Jimmy's Place
Chapter 25: Top Secret Glint
Chapter 26: Big Stuff
Chapter 27: The Jewels in the Amber
Chapter 28: Strange Odyssey
Chapter 29: Vladimir Arrives
Chapter 30: Catastrophe
Chapter 31: Reckoning
Chapter 32: Face Off
Chapter 33: Flight
Chapter 34: Aftermath
Chapter 35: Endgame
Chapter 36: Epilogue
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