Confessions of a Spy
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The story of the CIA officer who was arrested in 1994 for the most serious betrayal in the history of the CIA. Ames' 20 years spying for the KGB resulted in the deaths of ten US agents and the stalling of military projects. Ames enjoyed an exotic lifestyle, while those…
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Pete Earley, one of America’s best spy writers, authored two excellent books on espionage: Confessions of a Spy and Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. But for my money, the Ames book is the better of them because Earley – one helluva reporter – talked his way into a long series of exclusive interviews with the disgraced CIA officer.
Ames, who betrayed to Moscow the identities of Russian spies secretly working for the U.S. (causing at least 10 of them to be killed), gave Earley more than 50 hours of his time behind bars. He did…
From Bryan's list on nonfiction about turncoat American spies.
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