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Targeted as a Spy - Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania (Paperback)
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Targeted as a Spy - Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania (Paperback)
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An often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of
diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron
Curtain. Every Western diplomat stationed in the Soviet bloc was
targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in these countries. Now
with the opening of archives in Eastern Europe, the extent of this
diplomatic espionage is revealed for the first time. Â Ernest
H. Latham, Jr. was a career Foreign Service Officer who served the
United States in various posts in the Middle East and Central
Europe. From 1983 to 1987, he was the cultural attachÉ at the
American Embassy in Bucharest. During his time in Romania, Dr.
Latham was targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship
of Nicolae Ceausescu and subjected to constant, intrusive
surveillance by his dreaded and dreadful secret police, the
Securitate.  This book is a collection of
surveillance reports that Dr. Latham obtained from the Romanian
archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They
reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats
were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal
about the system and society that conducted it. Latham’s
introduction provides the context of his work and Romanian
conditions at that time. This book is essential reading for
students of the Cold War as well as anyone interested in the
mindset and methods of totalitarian regimes. The esteemed professor
of Romanian history and editor of this English edition, Dennis
Deletant, has called it “a notable event” representing “a
rare case of such a file – of a foreigner.... Latham’s
role as the US cultural attachÉ between 1983 and 1987 marks him
out in body as an outsider,” but “in spirit, an insider,
sympathetic to the ambivalences and ambiguities of Romania's
past.... His file reminds the reader of the intrusiveness of
the Communist regime into the lives of citizens, be they Romanian
or otherwise.”
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