In the Enemy's House

Howard Blum

• 20 februari 2018
• 9780062458278

Samenvatting:

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War."

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.

Opposites in nearly every way, Lamphere and Gardner relentlessly followed a trail of clues that helped them identify and take down these Soviet agents one by one, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But at the center of this spy ring, seemingly beyond the American agents' grasp, was the mysterious master spy who pulled the strings of the KGB's extensive campaign, dubbed Operation Enormoz by Russian Intelligence headquarters. Lamphere and Gardner began to suspect that a mole buried deep in the American intelligence community was feeding Moscow Center information on Venona. They raced to unmask the traitor and prevent the Soviets from fulfilling Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's threat: "We shall bury you!"

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.

• The Venona Project: Go inside the recently declassified, top-secret mission to decrypt KGB communications and uncover a vast spy network operating on American soil.
• An Unlikely Partnership: Discover the true story of how a reclusive genius codebreaker and a relentless FBI agent teamed up to hunt a mole buried deep in U.S. intelligence.
• Atomic Spies: Follow the breathtaking cat-and-mouse chase to protect the secrets of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb from a mysterious and brilliant master spy.
• The Rosenberg Case: Witness the historical chain of events that led from a secret counterintelligence operation all the way to the controversial execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.