Cassidy's Run
The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2000
Summary
Cassidy’s Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation Shocker.
Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife, and a classic “sleeper” spy in New York City, were sent by Moscow to penetrate America…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812992632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812992636 |
| Author: | David Wise |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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Praise for Cassidy’s Run
“A true cold-war story that reads like the very best spy thriller.”
—Seymour M. Hersh
“David Wise has again performed one of his astonishing feats of digging out a spy drama where few even knew one existed. Magnificently documented and yet clearly and cogently written, Cassidy’s Run is a piece of hidden history that is a cautionary tale for our time.”
—Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, National Public Radio
” A Soviet sleeper agent doubled back against the GRU. Dangles. Illegals. Hollow rocks with microdots at dead drops. Fake nerve gas formulas. FBI special agents killed in the line of duty. At the center of it all an army sergeant from a humble background who deceives Soviet intelligence for over two decades. Bag the novels. Read Cassidy’s Run.”
—R. James Woolsey, former director, Central Intelligence Agency
“David Wise’s carefully researched, dramatic story reveals how counterintelligence has been used to identify the targets, objectives, and techniques of our enemies and to neutralize their efforts. Because of patriotic citizens like Joe Cassidy, America is safer today.”
—William H. Webster, former director, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency
About The Author
David Wise
David Wise was America’s leading writer on intelligence and espionage. He was the coauthor of The Invisible Government, a #1 bestseller about the CIA. He was also the author of Nightmover, Molehunt, The Spy Who Got Away, The American Police State, The Politics of Lying, Cassidy’s Run, Spy, and Tiger Trap, and the coauthor, with Thomas B. Ross, of The Espionage Establishment and The U-2 Affair. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, he was the former chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Herald-Tribune and contributed articles on government and politics to many national magazines. David Wise died in 2018.
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