By Greville Wynne
This classic is the story of Oleg Penkovsky, how the Brits recruited him and how the US/UK team handled him.
Led by RADM Tom Brooks (Ret.) and ISCM Dave Mattingly (Ret.), NIP has constructed a list of books (fiction and non-fiction) which are considered to be “classics” in each of the intelligence disciplines.
The beginnings of this list are included below. The object is to list two or three of the best books in each discipline, and we anticipate that the list will undoubtedly change over time as the readership suggests books that they consider better than the ones on the current list.
By Greville Wynne
This classic is the story of Oleg Penkovsky, how the Brits recruited him and how the US/UK team handled him.
By David Hoffman
This is the story of Adolf Tolkachev who, from the US Navy's perspective, was the most valuable Soviet spy CIA recruited in the closing days of the Cold War. It was a purely CIA operation with no naval intelligence participation, but the info Tolkachev provided was of inestimable value to the U.S. Navy.