Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada: From Gouzenko to Glasnost

by David Stafford, J.L. Granatstein, David Stafford

Book Overview

Fact as fascinating as fiction, this book delivers a briskly paced survey of Canada s secret history. To most Canadians, the world of espionage may seem a far off sort of affair, a great game played... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155013258X
• ISBN13: 9781550132588
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting Book !!!

Provides a well-documented, fascinating survey of threats to Canada's national security, from the Gouzenko affair, which triggered the Cold War, to recent cases of terrorism & industrial espionage, which usher in a new age of high-tech spying & sabotage. The characters featured include Hugh Hambleton, an unassuming professor who brought glamour to his life by giving secrets to the Soviets; Rudi Hermann, who ran a popular restaurant in Toronto & after hours operated the KGB's North Amer. spy network; & Stephen Ratkai who was caught buying info.on submarine surveillance from an undercover agent