Research Catalog

Title

Treachery : betrayals, blunders, and cover-ups : six decades of espionage against America and Great Britain / Chapman Pincher.

Author

Pincher, Chapman

Publication

New York : Random House, c2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 679 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Espionage > United States > History > 20th century
• Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain > History
• Espionage, Soviet > United States > History
• Espionage, British > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-650) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Admission -- A momentous message -- Duplicity exposed -- A spy called Elli -- Inauspicious start -- Cosmopolitan comrades -- Strange interlude -- Someone for tennis -- Inside MI5 -- The Krivitsky "coincidence" -- Toxic troika -- Traitors to order -- In charge of "Soviet espionage" -- Secrets by the bagful -- Enter Sonia -- Another insidious immigrant -- "Signing on" -- Calling Moscow -- An enlightening book -- In the city -- Flagrant "divergence" -- Two-headed colossus -- Red light from green -- A high-level culprit -- Calamitous clearance -- An enlightening letter -- First atomic spy -- Enormoz -- The strange behaviour of Roger Hollis -- In a new world -- A mystery resolved -- Blind eye to Elli -- The denigration of Igor Gouzenko -- Long shot shot down -- Protective perfidy -- Back in full flood -- Another GRU defector -- The firs fiasco -- Australian assignment -- Betraying the superbomb -- A brilliant break -- Confessions--of a kind --^ Misleading the Attorney General -- Misleading the Prime Minister -- Alienating the Americans -- Unhampered escape -- Volume of deception -- Hollis at bay -- Italian fiasco -- Another volume of deception -- Betrayal beyond belief -- Rigorous scrutiny--for some -- Escape at the double -- A more credible scenario? -- A list of nine -- Reluctant riddance -- Suspicious aftermaths -- Pamphlet of deception -- A ruthless defamation -- Master of minimalism -- A warning from Hoover -- Master of minimalism -- Another spy in MI6 -- The Penkovsky problem -- Another enlightening case -- Another naval spy -- The strange escape of an archtraitor -- "The year that the roof fell in" -- Portentous liaison -- The fall of Supermac -- Irish interlude -- A sordid deal -- Playing the royal card -- Still more cover-ups -- Suspect finish -- Kid-glove showdown -- Overdue cull -- A crucial call -- Two turncoats -- Brush with the police -- Missing link? -- Sonia resurgent -- The Sanden saga, part 1 --^ The Sanden saga, part 2 -- Censure deferred -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: The scroll of anamalies -- Notes on the sources -- Archival sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781400068074 (alk. paper)
• 140006807X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008033875

OCLC

• 241304559
• SCSB-10709692

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library