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The Liar - How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man (Hardcover)
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The Liar - How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man (Hardcover)
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In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher
closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And
they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed
as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a
Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia
into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double
agent at the height of the Cold War. Shunning a low profile, the
Koechers embraced Manhattan's high life-with cocaine, swinging, and
parties emblematic of the times and their penchant for risk. Hana,
who was no more than a shy teenager when she arrived, grew into a
sophisticated international diamond dealer who relayed messages to
Karel's handlers. Riding a wave of euphoria, the Koechers felt
unstoppable. But it was too good to last. Using newly declassified
documents, interrogation tapes, and extraordinary firsthand
accounts from the Koechers themselves, 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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