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The liar : how a double agent in the CIA became the Cold War's last honest man Cover Image Book Book

The liar : how a double agent in the CIA became the Cold War's last honest man / Benjamin Cunningham.

Cunningham, Benjamin, (author.).

Summary:

In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB both suspected Karel Koecher was working for the enemy. They were both right. After graduating from Columbia, he swiftly entered the ranks of the CIA, becoming a double agent during the height of the cold war. Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes and extraordinary first-hand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Benjamin Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end.

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  • ISBN: 9781541700796 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: x, 268 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Köcher, Karel, 1934-
United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Officials and employees > Biography.
Intelligence officers > Czechoslovakia > Biography.
Intelligence officers > Soviet Union > Biography.
Intelligence officers > United States > Biography.
Spies > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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Benjamin Cunningham is a Barcelona-based writer. He is a former correspondent for The Economist, editor in chief of the Prague Post, and copy boy at the Saginaw News. In addition he contributes to The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aspen Review, Le Monde Diplomatique and is an opinion columnist for Sme, Slovakia’s main daily newspaper. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona.  

Benjamin Cunningham is a correspondent for The Economist. He covered Central and Eastern Europe for six years, and now writes about the wider Mediterranean region from Barcelona. In addition he contributes to The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aspen Review, Le Monde Diplomatique and is an opinion columnist for Sme, Slovakia’s main daily newspaper. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona.  

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