Man without a face

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AUTOBIOGRiSPHY
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mjpgi hey called him "the man without a face," /W a figure of such secrecy that it tool< almost /1 twenty years before Western intelligence had any idea what he looked like. Now, legendary spy-master Markus Wolf emerges from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign intelligence service.
Man Without a Face details all of Wolfs major operations and illuminates the reality of espionage operations as few nonfiction works before it. Wolf reveals the truth behind East Germany's ment with terrorist groups and shares th^factics of his "Romeo" agents, spies sent to sed^ice and entrap women who had access to state secrets. He details his adventures in Africa, Latin Afeefica, Cuba, and the United States. He takes us inside the bowels of the Stasi headquartersjand inside the minds of Eastern Bloc leaders. |jSefl Without a Face reads like a classic spy novel, full not only of moral... Tovább

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AUTOBIOGRiSPHY
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mjpgi hey called him "the man without a face," /W a figure of such secrecy that it tool< almost /1 twenty years before Western intelligence had any idea what he looked like. Now, legendary spy-master Markus Wolf emerges from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign intelligence service.
Man Without a Face details all of Wolfs major operations and illuminates the reality of espionage operations as few nonfiction works before it. Wolf reveals the truth behind East Germany's ment with terrorist groups and shares th^factics of his "Romeo" agents, spies sent to sed^ice and entrap women who had access to state secrets. He details his adventures in Africa, Latin Afeefica, Cuba, and the United States. He takes us inside the bowels of the Stasi headquartersjand inside the minds of Eastern Bloc leaders. |jSefl Without a Face reads like a classic spy novel, full not only of moral ambiguity but also high-speed chases, murdered agents, hidden cameras, phfOny brothels, secret codes, false identities, triple agents, and all the other trappings of the most fantastic thrillers-except this time the action is real.
With a new introduction by Craig R. Whitney of the New York Times and author of Spy Trader
'An absorbing account of a spy's life, packed with delectable anecdotes and seasoned with ruminations on the East-West struggle."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Defiant apologetic, bitter, funny sordid, boastful, sad [and] unexpectedly well written "
—The New Yorker Vissza