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The Cold War officially lasted from 1945 to 1991; however, many operations and individual spies often are found beyond these dates, with some previously unknown operations and names having surfaced only recently. Based on all the latest research, the core part of the book consists of over 330 individual entries that include biographical accounts of the lives and operations the individual spies and secret agents took part in.
In support of the entries, the book provides important useful tools: a complete chronology of significant espionage activities; a glossary of key terms and figures providing additional background to the entries; references to other sources, either in print or electronic formats; and extensive cross-references for all entries. Reaching as far back as 1917 and the Soviet seizure of power in Russia, <em>Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations covers the entire range of Soviet Bloc and Western espionage. The book explores in depth the critical Cold War years, 1945–1991, alongside all the extended ramifications of espionage, up to the spies and operations most recently unveiled.
The bulk of the entries centers on the Cold War conflict of the United States and NATO-allied countries against the USSR and Communist China, though many other countries were involved in Cold War espionage operations as well. Selected fictional characters and operations created by John LeCarré, Ian Fleming, and Robert Littell are also included in a separate section due to the image, accurate or imaginary, of the intelligence operative that was either reviled by the professionals or enthusiastically embraced by the general public.
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Also published by Enigma Books Hitler’s Table Talk: 1941–1944 In Stalin’s Secret Service Hitler and Mussolini: The Secret Meetings The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History The Man Behind the Rosenbergs Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History Diary 1937–1943 (Galeazzo Ciano) Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942–1945 Stalin and the Jews: The Red Book The Secret Front: Nazi Political Espionage Fighting the Nazis: French Intelligence and Counterintelligence A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Algeria 1955–1957 Hitler’s Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf At Napoleon’s Side in Russia: The Classic Eyewitness Account The Atlantic Wall: Hitler’s Defenses for D-Day Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932–1939 Mussolini: The Secrets of His Death Mortal Crimes: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project Top Nazi: Karl Wolff—The Man Between Hitler and Himmler Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini’s Conquest of Yugoslavia The Origins of the War of 1914 (3-volume set) Hitler’s Foreign Policy: 1933–1939—The Road to World War II The Origins of Fascist Ideology 1918–1925 Max Corvo: OSS Italy 1942–1945 Hitler’s Contract: The Secret History of the Italian Edition of Mein Kampf Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Israel at High Noon Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War, and Intervention, 1990–2005 Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster Calculated Risk The Murder of Maxim Gorky The Kravchenko Case: One Man’s War On Stalin The Mafia and the Allies Hitler’s Gift to France The Nazi Party 1919–1945: A Complete History Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims and the Holocaust
Richard C. S. Trahair and Robert L. Miller
Encyclopedia of
Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations
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