Escape from the CIA: How the CIA Won and Lost the Most Important KGB Spy Ever to Defect to the U.S.

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Pocket Books, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 210 pages
Colonel Vitaly Yurchenko was the most important KGB spy ever to defect to the U.S., so when he left Washington and returned to Moscow, the CIA lost a phenomenal intelligence source. Here emerges an account of alleged kidnapping, mind control and torment of a spy who betrayed his country only to be mistreated by the U.S. 8 pages of photographs.

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Section 2
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Section 3
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Ronald Kessler was born in New York City in 1943. He grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is an American journalist and author of 20 nonfiction books. Kessler worked at the Washington Post for many years. After this he began to write books about current affairs and national intelligence topics. Four of his books were listed on the hardcover nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. In 2009 he published In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect. Kessler's The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents (Crown 2014) made the New York Times bestseller list in August 2014.

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