author results for Hoffman, David E.

The Billion Dollar Spy

Hoffman, David E. — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

The Dead Hand

Hoffman, David E. — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Give Me Liberty

Hoffman, David E. — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David E. Hoffman comes the riveting biography of Oswaldo Payá, a dissident who dared to defy Fidel Castro, inspiring thousands of Cubans to fight for democracy.

Szpieg za miliard dolarów

Hoffman, David E. — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

"Jednym z największych sukcesów amerykańskiej CIA (Centralnej Agencji Wywiadowczej) na terenie przeciwnika było pozyskanie w 1979 roku Adolfa Tołkaczowa. Ten inżynier z Moskwy, specjalista od radarów, powodowany niechęcią do systemu komunistycznego i sympatią do dysydentów takich jak Andriej Sacharow czy Aleksander Sołżenicyn, przekazał CIA tysiące stron tajnych dokumentów. Dzięki niemu Amerykanie poznali silne i słabe strony radzieckich systemów radarowych i obrony powietrznej. Mogli też namierzać i wprowadzać w błąd urządzenia radarowe montowane w radzieckich samolotach wojskowych. Cenny agent działający pod nosem KGB wpadł w 1985 roku wskutek zdrady w szeregach CIA i rok później został stracony. Wartość informacji dostarczonych przez Tołkaczowa wyceniono w USA na okrągły miliard dolarów." -- From bookseller's website.

The Oligarchs

Hoffman, David E. — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Oligarchs

Hoffman, David E. — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Gua tou

Hoffman, David — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

The Easy-Bake Oven Gourmet

Hoffman, David — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The Joy of Pigging Out

Hoffman, David — Mon, 31 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT

The Billion Dollar Spy

E. Hoffman, David — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War

   While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the years that followed, the man, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air, giving the United States near total superiority in the skies over Europe.
   One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risks—but so did the Americans. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev was a singular breakthrough. Using spy cameras and secret codes as well as face-to-face meetings in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.
   Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. Stirring, unpredictable, and at times unbearably tense, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage thriller.

Huck Finn

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT