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Dead Drop - TheTrue Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation (Paperback)
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Dead Drop - TheTrue Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation (Paperback)
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The astonishing true story of how the CIA, MI6 and a Soviet
defector saved the world in 1962, as told in the new film, The
Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. In August 1960, a Soviet
colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West.
His first attempt was to approach two young American students in
Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to
deliver it to the American embassy. MI6 and the CIA came to believe
Penkovsky was genuine and so the two agencies decided to run the
operation jointly. It ran right through the Berlin crisis - in an
astonishing near-miss, Penkovsky learned that the Wall was going to
be built four days before it happened but was unable to contact his
handlers - and the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which rocket manuals
Penkovsky had handed over were crucial in determining what
President Khrushchev was doing, and helped President John F.
Kennedy and his team end the crisis and avert a nuclear war.
Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, is widely seen as the most important spy
of the Cold War, and the CIA-MI6 joint operation to run him has
never been bettered. But had the KGB already 'turned' Penkovsky and
were the Russians making sure he saw the information they wanted
him to see? If so, it may even have been possible that the whole
Cuban Missile Crisis might have been a Russian deception operation.
Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Dead Drop blows
apart some of the myths about one of the Cold War's most well-known
operations as the world stood on the brink of nuclear destruction.
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