Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames By Victor Cherkashin,Gregory Feifer

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Victor Cherkashin's incredible career in the KGB spanned thirty-eight years, from Stalin's death in 1953 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In this riveting memoir, Cherkashin provides a remarkable insider's view of the KGB's prolonged conflict with the United States, from his recruitment through his rising career in counterintelligence to his prime spot as the KGB's number- two man at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Victor Cherkashin's story will shed stark new light on the KGB's inner workings over four decades and reveal new details about its major cases. Cherkashin's story is rich in episode and drama. He took part in some of the highest-profile Cold War cases, including tracking down U.S. and British spies around the world. He was posted to stations in the U.S., Australia, India, and Lebanon and traveled the globe for operations in England, Europe, and the Middle East. But it was in 1985, known as "the Year of the Spy," that Cherkashin scored two of the biggest coups of the Cold War. In April of that year, he recruited disgruntled CIA officer Aldrich Ames, becoming his principal handler. Refuting and clarifying other published versions, Cherkashin will offer the most complete account on how and why Ames turned against his country. Cherkashin will also reveal new details about Robert Hanssen's recruitment and later exposure, as only he can. And he will address whether there is an undiscovered KGB spy-another Hanssen or Ames-still at large. Spy Handler will be a major addition to Cold War history, told by one of its key participants.

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A solid book. You can't accept everything it says at face value, but it's well worth reading. Most importantly, you can see the infighting in the KGB in the last days of the cold war, and get a unique view of the Ames and Hanssen cases. Otherwise, it's an interesting and engaging autobiography.Cherkashin argues that sentences for spies should be reduced, that an intelligence officer's best weapon is the agent's fear of discovery. In the case of Ames, he says that by far the most damaging leak happened in a short dinner at a restaurant-- Cherkashin simply pointed out that any American agents in the KGB might potentially expose Ames. Ames thought it over, and wrote a list of names on a napkin. Like that, human lives were snuffed out and US national security was critically compromised. Up until then (he claims), Ames had only handed them dribs and drabs. It was the fear of discovery and draconian punishment, not KGB bribes, that delivered the holy grail of US intelligence.The author also discusses the infighting in the KGB. Mostly that he wasn't given enough credit and influence for his contributions to Soviet intelligence. KGB head Kryuchkov instead eliminated the American agents one by one, crediting the whole thing to good internal policework (and the implication that before his brilliant leadership things had gotten lax). Of course, the other reason to have done this was to conceal how the Soviets had discovered the moles. Cherkashin came under scrutiny for his contacts with CIA officers and moles inside the KGB. He obviously maintains his innocence and gives a thorough discussion of his version of events.Finally, he argues that American writing on espionage is quick to portray agents recruited in the Soviet Union and elsewhere as patriots and ideologically opposed to communism. Meanwhile, it usually describes Americans recruited to work for the Russians as mentally ill or sociopathically mercenary (the latter isn't totally fair; certainly the WW2-era Soviet agents are usually described as believing communists). Cherkashin argues that issues of pride, office politics, ego, and personal life situations are very important in understanding agents' motivations to betray their countries. And that agents of any power are a complex mix of that plus ideology, mental illness, and other issues.My main complaint about this book is that it's very clearly post-retirement axe-grinding. It also like most espionage books spends most of its time talking about "who / when / where / why" and very little time talking about the stuff that's most interesting to amateurs like me, the what and how of intelligence work: the daily routine and tactics. Since he's living in America, one might have hoped to have gotten a glimpse into sources and methods, but it's not surprising that he didn't touch that stuff.

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