{"product_id":"spy-isbn-9780375758942","title":"Spy","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpy\u003c\/i\u003e tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert  Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been  called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caught  in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David Wise, the nation’s leading espionage  writer, has called on his unique knowledge and unrivaled intelligence sources to  write the definitive, inside story of how Robert Hanssen betrayed his country, and  why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpy\u003c\/i\u003e at last reveals the mind and motives of a man who was a walking paradox:  FBI counterspy, KGB mole, devout Catholic, obsessed pornographer who secretly televised  himself and his wife having sex so that his best friend could watch, defender of  family values, fantasy James Bond who took a stripper to Hong Kong and carried a  machine gun in his car trunk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Brimming with startling new details sure to make headlines,  \u003ci\u003eSpy\u003c\/i\u003e discloses:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• the previously untold story of how the FBI got the actual file on  Robert Hanssen out of KGB headquarters in Moscow for $7 million in an unprecedented  operation that ended in Hanssen’s arrest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• how for three years, the FBI pursued  a CIA officer, code name gray deceiver, in the mistaken belief that he was the mole  they were seeking inside U.S. intelligence. The innocent officer was accused as a  spy and suspended by the CIA for nearly two years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• why Hanssen spied, based on  exclusive interviews with Dr. David L. Charney, the psychiatrist who met with Hanssen  in his jail cell more than thirty times. Hanssen, in an extraordinary arrangement,  authorized Charney to talk to the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• the full story of Robert Hanssen’s bizarre  sex life, including the hidden video camera he set up in his bedroom and how he plotted  to drug his wife, Bonnie, so that his best friend could father her child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• how  Hanssen and the CIA’s Aldrich Ames betrayed three Russians secretly spying for the  FBI–including tophat, a Soviet general–who were then executed by Moscow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• that  after Hanssen was already working for the KGB, he directed a study of moles in the  FBI when–as he alone knew–he was the mole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Hanssen betrayed the FBI. He betrayed  his country. He betrayed his wife. He betrayed his children. He betrayed his best  friend, offering him up to the KGB. He betrayed his God. Most of all, he betrayed  himself. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full story, and he does so,  in masterly style, in \u003ci\u003eSpy\u003c\/i\u003e.Praise for David Wise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMolehunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Wise is a master at penetrating the invisible government. We won’t read a better book about this aspect of the Cold War.” –Seymour M. Hersh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant, fascinating account of the CIA’s greatest trauma–whether it had been penetrated by agents of the KGB. It tied the Agency into knots for two decades, but the evidence outlined by David Wise now reveals that it was only a phantom. Paranoia is sometimes said to be the prerequisite for good counterintelligence–but the CIA’s history suggests that it can become its Achilles’ heel as well.” –William E. Colby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spy Who Got Away\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most important book on intelligence since \u003cb\u003eThe Invisible Government\u003c\/b\u003e . . . with the suspense and tension-building that you expect in John le Carré’s fiction.” –Ronald L. Ostrow, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wise\u003c\/b\u003e was America's leading writer on intelligence and espionage. He was the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Government\u003c\/i\u003e, a #1 bestseller about the CIA. He was also the author of \u003ci\u003eNightmover, Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American Police State,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Lying,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCassidy’s Run, Spy, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTiger Trap, \u003c\/i\u003eand the coauthor, with Thomas B. Ross, of \u003ci\u003eThe Espionage Establishment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe U-2 Affair\u003c\/i\u003e. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, he was the former chief of the Washington bureau of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed articles on government and politics to many national magazines. David Wise died in 2018.\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mole Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisaster.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside the Soviet counterintelligence section at FBI headquarters in  Washington, there could be no other word for what had happened: the  two KGB agents who were the bureau's highly secret sources inside the  Soviet embassy in Washington had somehow been discovered. Valery  Martynov and Sergei Motorin had been lured back to Moscow and  executed. Each was killed with a bullet in the head, the preferred  method used by the KGB to dispatch traitors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere would be no more visits to the candy store by the FBI  counterintelligence agents; M\u0026amp;M, as the two KGB men were informally  if irreverently known inside FBI headquarters, were gone, two more  secret casualties of the Cold War. The year was 1986. The FBI quickly  created a six-person team to try to determine what had gone wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, the CIA, across the Potomac in Langley, Virginia, was  having its own troubles. It was losing dozens of agents inside the  Soviet Union, some executed, others thrown into prison. The agency  formed a mole hunt group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo years later, in 1988, the FBI still had no answer to how  Martynov, whom the bureau had given the code name pimenta, and  Motorin, code name megas, had been lost. Something more had to be  done, and the FBI now began thinking the unthinkable. As painful,  even heretical, as it might be to consider, perhaps there was a  traitor-a Russian spy-inside the FBI itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo find out the truth was the job of the bureau's intelligence  division, which was in charge of arresting spies, penetrating foreign  espionage services, and, when possible, recruiting their agents to  work for the FBI. The division was divided into sections, one of  which, CI-3 (the CI stood for counterintelligence), housed the Soviet  analytical unit, the research arm of the bureau's spycatchers.  Perhaps, the division's chiefs reasoned, something might be learned  if the analysts, looking back to the beginning of the Cold War,  carefully studied every report gleaned from a recruitment or a  defector that hinted at possible penetrations of the FBI by Soviet  intelligence. Perhaps a pattern could be seen that might point to a  current penetration, if one existed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin the Soviet unit, two experienced analysts, Bob King and Jim  Milburn, were assigned to read the debriefings of Soviet defectors  and reports of Soviet intelligence sources who had, over the years,  been recruited as spies by the FBI. The two shared a cubicle in Room  4835 with their supervisor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe supervisor, a tall, forty-four-year-old, somewhat dour man, was  not a popular figure among his fellow special agents, although he was  respected for his wizardry with computers. He had been born in  Chicago, served for a while as a police officer in that city, and  joined the FBI twelve years before, in 1976. Now he was responsible  for preparing and overseeing the mole study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the supervisor, directing the analysis to help pinpoint a  possible mole inside the FBI was a task of exquisite irony. For he  knew who had turned over the names of Valery Martynov and Sergei  Motorin to the KGB. He knew there was in fact an active mole inside  the FBI, passing the bureau's most highly classified secrets to  Moscow. He knew the spy was a trusted counterintelligence agent at  headquarters. He knew, in fact, that the spy was a supervisory  special agent inside the Soviet analytical unit. He knew all this but  could tell no one. And for good reason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hanssen was looking for himself.[quote]--The New York Times Book Review With a new Afterword by the author","brand":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304608354533,"sku":"NP9780375758942","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375758942.jpg?v=1767737138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/spy-isbn-9780375758942","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}