Dancing With the Devil: Sex, Espionage, and the U.S. Marines : The Clayton Lonetree Story - Brossura

Barker, Rodney

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ISBN 10: 0804115699 ISBN 13: 9780804115698

Casa editrice: Ivy Books, 1996

Riassunto

Profiles one of the most notorious espionage cases in Cold War history, introducing readers to Native American Marine sergeant Clayton Lonetree, who fell in love with a Russian woman and was recruited as a spy for the KGB. Reprint.

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COMPLEX AND CONSTANTLY SURPRISING . . . a tough tale, well told, that's twice as much fun because it's true."<br>--The Flint Journal<br>It sounds like a plot torn right from the latest spy thriller: Russian women seducing U.S. Marines so that KGB agents could gain access to top-secret information at the American Embassy in Moscow. In fact, this infamous sex-for-secrets scandal was one of the most notorious espionage cases in Cold War history. At the center of the turmoil was a twenty-five-year-old Native American marine sergeant, Clayton Lonetree, who fell in love with Violetta Seina, a Russian woman who in turn recruited him as a spy for the KGB.<br>The story soon expanded to involve the CIA and diplomats on both sides of the Iron Curtain. But before the political frenzy was over, Lonetree was tried and sentenced to thirty years, and charges against everyone else were dropped. Now author Rodney Barker peels away the layers of this controversial case, painstakingly interviewing key U.S.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ivy Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804115699
• ISBN 13: 9780804115698
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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