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Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller Paperback - 2012
by Victor Sheymov
Sheymov had the most sensitive position of any KGB officer ever to defect to the West. Incognito for years, he now describes his life in the KGB, conflict with the system, and reveals how he escaped from the heart of Moscow with his wife and young daughter--a CIA coup that convinced the KGB he was dead. Photos.
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Tower of Secrets is a thriller, filled with spycraft and intelligence techniques never before revealed, a true story that is more spellbinding than any work of fiction could ever be. As the ace troubleshooter for the super-secret Eighth Chief Directorate, Victor Sheymov operates from the KGB's inner sanctum, a courtyard tower within the old Lubyanka Moscow Center. He's in charge of the security of cipher communications worldwide, which gives him a rare if not unique knowledge of how the entire organization works. He knows Moscow like the inside of his pocket, and he's as comfortable among the Party elite and his KGB colleagues as he is among dissidents and the city's underworld. A star player destined for the very top, Victor nevertheless has a growing sense of unease, compounded by his wife Olga's unanswerable questions about the system his work supports so effectively. When he confronts the intrinsic evil of the KGB and all it represents, he realizes that neither dissent nor resignation are viable options - he knows too much. He decides that he and Olga and their five-year-old daughter must defect, but with a mission: to inflict the maximum possible damage on the KGB, the cortex of the Soviet system. The odds for their successful escape from Moscow are incalculably small. Because of his status, Victor is often under surveillance, and even the slightest indication of doubt about the system would result in his instant arrest and certain death. A series of ingenious schemes fails to put him in touch with the CIA, but after breaking every rule in the book, Victor finally succeeds in making contact with the Americans. The CIA's exfiltration of the Sheymovs is so brilliantly executed thatthe KGB is persuaded they are dead. So for years Sheymov and his unique expertise were available to the United States without the KGB's being aware of it. Given what he knew, this was catastrophic for the KGB. For the West, it was the intelligence coup of the Cold War. This is the real world of intelligence played like a chess match and described by a master of the game.
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- Title Tower of Secrets: A Real Life Spy Thriller
- Author Victor Sheymov
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cyber Books Publishing
- Date 2012-09-19
- ISBN 9780985893057 / 0985893052
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.89 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.26 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Russian
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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