The illegals: Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc:
vi, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593319680, 0593319680, 9780593319680
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General Note
"A Borzoi book"--Copyright page.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-412) and index.
Description
"A century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizens abroad as deep-cover spies, training them to pose as foreign aristocrats, merchants, and students. Over time, this became the most ambitious espionage program in human history. Many intelligence agencies use undercover operatives, but the KGB was the only one to go to such lengths, spending years training its spies to pass for foreigners, then sending them on missions that could last for decades--[and were rarely successful]. These spies were known as the illegals. ... Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with illegals and their descendants, as well as archival research in more than a dozen countries, Shaun Walker brings the illegals to life in a page-turning tour-de-force that takes us into the heart of the KGB's most secretive program"--,Provided by publisher.
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Walker, S. (2025). The illegals: Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West. First hardcover edition. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Walker, Shaun. 2025. The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-long Mission to Infiltrate the West. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Walker, Shaun, The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-long Mission to Infiltrate the West. Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Walker, Shaun. The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-long Mission to Infiltrate the West. First hardcover edition. Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Roots : the Bolshevik underground -- The old man : the first head of Soviet foreign intelligence -- The fast flier : the greatest of the great illegals -- The terror : Stalin's purges -- Inroads to America : the first illegals in the United States -- Operation Duck : the assassination of Leon Trotsky -- Operation Barbarossa : Hitler invades the Soviet Union -- The whistler : undercover behind enemy lines -- Early infiltrations : the Cold War begins -- Signor Ambasciatore : the mission to kill Tito -- The illegals go public : the Abel trial and the CIA's first illegals -- Origin : the recruitment and training of an illegal -- Matchmaking : the search for a partner and co-illegal -- Infiltration : entering the West -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Operation Progress : undermining the Prague Spring -- The mobile resident : on assignment in Israel -- The Baron von Hohenstein : undercover in West Germany -- The main enemy : spying on the Americans -- The inheritor : the attempt to create a second-generation illegal -- Diminishing returns : the KGB keeps going -- Eleven days in Kabul : the birth of the "fighting illegal" -- The threat of war : rising tensions and new illegals -- The end : the collapse of the Soviet Union -- Stierlitz takes over : the rise of Vladimir Putin -- Operation Ghost Stories : the FBI swoops -- The virtual illegals : election meddling and easy deniability -- The lives of wonderful people : the cult of the illegal. | |
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