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My Life as a Spy - Investigations in a Secret Police File (Paperback)
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My Life as a Spy - Investigations in a Secret Police File (Paperback)
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As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your
secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973
Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of
Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during
which time the secret police-the Securitate-compiled a massive
surveillance file on her. Reading through its 2,781 pages, she
learned that she was "actually" a spy, a CIA agent, a Hungarian
agitator, and a friend of dissidents: in short, an enemy of
Romania. In My Life as a Spy she analyzes her file alongside her
original field notes and conversations with Securitate officers.
Verdery also talks with some of the informers who were close
friends, learning the complex circumstances that led them to report
on her, and considers how fieldwork and spying can be easily
confused. Part memoir, part detective story, part anthropological
analysis, My Life as a Spy offers a personal account of how
government surveillance worked during the Cold War and how Verdery
experienced living under it.
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