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Title: Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War over Nerve Gas by David Wise ISBN: 0-8129-9263-6 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FBI Success story
Comment: Smoothly written and absorbing. Not my usual kind of book, but well worth picking up. In 1959, at the height of the Cold War, the FBI decided to dangle a prospect in front of a Soviet embassy employee named Polikarpov. Policarpov, a GRU officer, took the bait and enlisted Sergeant Joseph Cassidy as a for-cash agent. The relationship continued for twenty-three years, during which Cassidy solicited information that netted ten other Soviet spies and funneled an enormous mass of true, false, misleading, and trivial intelligence eastward. Much of the intelligence concerned the nerve gas research and production facility at Edgewood Arsenal, and may have led the Soviets into expensive and dangerous blind alleys. Details of the operation, especially the capture and release of two Mexican nationals who were confessed spies, make an interesting account of a US intelligence success not previously publicized.
Rating: 4
Summary: Recommended reading by nervegas.com
Comment: David Wise writes the story of a spy thriller. Nerve Agents are actually only a side-line story. Much of the focus is on the FBI, HUMINT, and counter intel.
For those familiar with CBW, the story about dangling a deception such as Nerve Agent GJ, is intreging. GJ is not chemically identified, but presented as a protential Nerve Agent that would have required considerable efforts in binary weapons technology to ever be of any use. The author contends that this deception might have inadvertently lead the Soviets to create their Novichok class of agents. The discussion of GJ leads one to suspect it was a relative of the GV-series, such as Nerve Agent GP (GP11, or GV).
In the context of GJ, the author reveals that there were actually many more agents than just the familiar GA, GB, GD, GE, and GF. There G-series actually went all the way down to GH (isopentyl sarin). The treatment of Nerve Agents is conversational, and suits the purpose of his book.
David Wise made many interviews and performed as an investigative journalist to deliver a story that up to now has not been told. It does reveal the cultures of the people of the time, and is suggestive of many areas of future historic investigation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Uncle Joe
Comment: An awesome book about my Uncle Joe. Most of the family didn't know for years what he endured. This book is a great tribute to our family history. Our family is very proud. I doubt this review will help you much in deciding whether or not to buy the book, but several of my friends have read it and had a hard time putting it down until finished.
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Title: Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World by Stuart A. Herrington, Colonel Stuart A. Herrington ISBN: 0156011174 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America by David Wise ISBN: 0375507450 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (Yale Nota Bene) by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr ISBN: 0300084625 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case by Robert W. Hunter, Lynn Dean Hunter ISBN: 1557503494 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Espionage : The Greatest Spy Operations of the Twentieth Century by Ernest Volkman ISBN: 0471161578 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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