Requiem of a Spy
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Few Americans recognized or paid close attention to the outset of the Cold War and thereafter its enduring years. Only few alarming situations intruded daily lives such as SPUTNIK, the shooting down of Gary Powers'U-2 spy plane and the Cuban Crisis. Nevertheless, during the last half of the twentieth century, the United States found its national security challenged over the longest continuous period in history. During the protracted period, the most powerful, aggressive and dreaded secret police and intelligence organizations in the world belonged to the Soviet Union, KGB and the GRU. Spying and brutality by the KGB were the accepted process for eliminating enemies of the State. The GRU focused more directly on covert collection of technology and weapon systems intelligence principally from the U.S. Although this is a work of fiction, it is more appropriately one of "faction” as the author delves into many of the factual truths about the Cold War Soviet secret spy agencies--their recruiting, training, surveillance tactics, agent operations, exploitation and brutal deeds. Similarly, the story also weaves in factual details about U.S. strategic air operations during the period. The centerpiece of the manufactured tale recreates a Cold War event that could have potentially happened, but fortunately it did not. It is rather the author's intent to spin a yarn drawn from his personal experience blended with actual events, facts and truths. These are melded into fictitious people with faces, lives and personalities. In order to provide a flavor of the Cyrillic language culture, Russian words and terms are sprinkled throughout the text for which a Glossary is provided. A perfect story for the spy and conspiracy theorists!
A son, Sasha, is born to a Soviet Air Force officer and his wife. The boy becomes a healthy and intelligent young man under the watchful eye of his doting mother while his father guides him through the progressive Soviet youth training programs. The KGB, ever vigilant for young men and women of talent, identifies Sasha early on and his life-long desire is to become a Soviet pilot like his father is interrupted when he is selected out of his class and sent to training with the GRU. Extraordinary and meticulous detail is given to Sasha's training, development into a spy-agent and eventually his insertion into the United States where he assumes a skillfully prepared false identity. He is then surreptitiously enlisted into the U.S. Air Force; enters pilot training and ultimately becomes a Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber pilot, Captain Mike Kelly. The gist of the story begins `at the beginning' with Mike Kelly (Sasha) taking off on a B-52 mission during the Cuban Crisis with the full intent of anesthetizing his crew, hijacking the bomber and taking it along with its weapons and technology to the Soviet Union for exploitation. Numerous flash-backs keeps the reader fully involved in the intrigue; Sasha's tediously planned visits back to the Soviet Union, his mother's arrest as a dissident and his falling in love with a fellow agent.
A perfect story for the spy and conspiracy theorists!
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THE FBI ARREST 12 RUSSIAN SPIES...Newspaper headlines, radio and television networks announced the startling news. A dozen or more undocumented Russian agents were caught operating undercover within the United States. This event might well have occurred back during the last Millennia, and did, but this is 2010; the Cold War has been over for almost twenty years, or has it? Were we surprised? After all, the President of the United States had within the previous week of the arrests, hosted the President of Russia to an Official State Visit. As this book enters the final publication phase, I could not have created a more perfect, although factually unsettling, introduction to the exciting and factual story which you are about to begin. The most powerful and aggressive intelligence and secret police organizations in the world have for centuries belonged to Russia, and during the Cold War, the Soviet Union. The long and sordid history of Russian secret police operations and tactics dates back to the 17th Century and Ivan the Terrible. The Soviets, known for their paranoia and mackorova (masquerade), frequently renamed these agencies in attempts to foil foreign interests. The name changes were largely cosmetic and their foul work never changed. Soviet leaders throughout the Cold War found it expedient to pit the KGB and the GRU against one another for maximum benefit of desired objectives. Although the story herein is one of fiction, perhaps it is more appropriately one of “faction”--a fictional story derived from factual history, and as we now know persists today. Herein, I have delved into many of the factual truths about these two Cold War secret spy organizations, their sordid and brutal deeds, their recruiting, training and surveillance tactics, agent operations and exploitation of Western technologies. Enjoy!
About the Author
Chris Adams is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General and former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command; former Associate Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, industry executive and published author. As a basis for this work, he is a former B-52 pilot himself, traveled extensively in the former Soviet States, making some 23 visits over five years. He draws on his extraordinary knowledge and experience in strategic air operations, nuclear weapon, intelligence and the culture of the former