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In the enemy's house, the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies, Howard Blum

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In the enemy's house, the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies, Howard Blum

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the enemy's house

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1023436294

Responsibility statement

Howard Blum

Sub title

the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies

Summary

"In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage--the atomic bomb... A breathtaking chapter of American history and a page-turning mystery that plays out against the tense, life-and-death gamesmanship of the Cold War, this twisting thriller begins at the end of World War II and leads all the way to the execution of the Rosenbergs--a result that haunted both Gardner and Lamphere to the end of their lives."--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

A note to the reader -- Prologue: "The storks fly away" -- Part I: The blue problem -- Part II: "In the enemy's house" -- Part III: Dominoes

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