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Unmasking Spies, Then and Now by J. R. Nyquist Victor Cherkashin, the KGB colonel who nurtured moles like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, has published a memoir with the title Spy Handler. It is worth reading if only to see how a successful spymaster colors and updates his work 15 years later. Striking a disillusioned pose for the sake of foreign consumption, Cherkashin’s memoir differs from that of an authentically disillusioned mole-hunter like Britain’s Peter Wright (whose 1987 book was banned in England). Wright’s book was painfully honest, exposing the author to legal proceedings. Spy Handler is not as forthcoming,...

Was Angleton Right? WALL STREET JOURNAL December 30, 2004 by Edward Jay Epstein Recently a number of former CIA officers received an invitation from the Spy Museum in Washington to attend a luncheon for former KGB Col. Victor Cherkashin. The event, as the invitation said, would afford "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dine and dish with an extraordinary spymaster." In the heyday of the Cold War, such an offer, delivered with slightly more discretion, might have been the prelude to a KGB recruitment operation. Now it's merely the notice for a book party celebrating yet another memoir by a former KGB...

A RUSSIAN double agent who worked for MI6 for ten years before having to defect for his own safety is at the centre of a new mystery over who betrayed him to the KGB. Oleg Gordievsky, who has lived in Britain since his escape from Moscow in the boot of a car in 1985, is now claimed to have been betrayed by a British journalist working for a magazine in Washington. Mr Gordievsky, in an interview with The Times, discounted the latest theory, although he admitted that he still did not know who tipped off the KGB that he was...

Recently a number of former CIA officers received an invitation from the Spy Museum in Washington to attend a luncheon for former KGB Col. Victor Cherkashin. The event, as the invitation said, would afford "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dine and dish with an extraordinary spymaster." In the heyday of the Cold War, such an offer, delivered with slightly more discretion, might have been the prelude to a KGB recruitment operation. Now it's merely the notice for a book party celebrating yet another memoir by a former KGB officer recounting how the KGB duped the CIA. In this case, there is...