High Treason

by Umberto Tosi and Vladimir Sakharov

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345296982
• ISBN13: 9780345296986
• Release Date: September 1981
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Should be reprinted--a classic of enduring value

Not necessarily for students, this paperback from the Ballentine Espionage/Intelligence Library is sensational. I had already been a case officer overseas when I read it, and I read it with real admiration for the Soviet Division and the case officers who had the luxury of doing it "right." From the overseas evaluations to the discreet subway signal of interest in Moscow to the follow-up that resulted in a recruitment in place and an ultimate exfiltration across the desert of Kuwait, this is a magnificent account of "the way it is supposed to be" in the clandestine service. It has a spy's kind of happy ending-really rotten treatment by CIA security blockheads during the resettlement program, a very long drunken period, hit bottom, and finally get clean and work your way free from the system on your own.

Memoirs of a double agent who betrayed a dying Soviet elite

The compelling, fast-paced and ironic memoir describes in the first person, the life of a priveliged young member of the post-World War II Soviet nomeclature--the 100 or so families who ran the USSR. Groomed as a foreign ministry official in Moscow and inevitably drawn into KGB operations he loathed, Sakarov strikes out against the Soviet elite he grows to despise for its corruption of Russia, including his own father. Assigned to the Middle East for the KG, he joins the CIA as its double agent and eventually helps in the struggle to support Anwar Sadat's rise in Egypt. Compromised and hunted, he must flee to the U.S. abandoning wife and daughter in disgrace. Sakaraov's story is filled with insights into Moscow society, why and how the Soviet Empire exploited Russia and its own. It is a psychological spy classic written with bright clarity brought by co-author Umberto Tosi.