
The Spy who was left out in the Cold
The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
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Published: 27th May 2021
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Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West.
His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.
Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost - of how Goleniewski exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the 'Portland Spy Ring', to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government. The information he produced devastated intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Bringing together love and loyalty, courage and treachery, betrayal, greed and, ultimately, insanity, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most significant but little known spies of the Cold War.
© Tim Tate 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
About the Author
Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Over a career spanning almost forty years he has written for most national newspapers and made more than eighty documentaries for British and international broadcasters. He is the author of sixteen published non-fiction books, his most recent work being Hitler's British Traitors, which Dan Snow called 'a brilliant book' and was selected as The Times' 'Book of the Week'.
Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West.
His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.
Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost - of how Goleniewski exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the 'Portland Spy Ring', to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government. The information he produced devastated intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Bringing together love and loyalty, courage and treachery, betrayal, greed and, ultimately, insanity, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most significant but little known spies of the Cold War.
© Tim Tate 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
About the Author
Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Over a career spanning almost forty years he has written for most national newspapers and made more than eighty documentaries for British and international broadcasters. He is the author of sixteen published non-fiction books, his most recent work being Hitler's British Traitors, which Dan Snow called 'a brilliant book' and was selected as The Times' 'Book of the Week'.
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ISBN: 9781473592407
ISBN-10: 1473592402
Published: 27th May 2021
Format: Digital Audiobook
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Transworld
Duration: 13:51.26
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