Eva Dillon's Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian PDF

A riveting true-life mystery and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the surprising actual tale of 2 spies and their households on contrary facets of the chilly War.

In the summer season of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon used to be dwelling in New Delhi along with her family members whilst her father used to be uncovered as a CIA secret agent. Eva had lengthy believed that her father was once a U.S. country division worker. She had no concept that he was once dealing with the CIA’s highest-ranking double agent—Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov—a Soviet normal whose code identify was once TOPHAT. Dillon’s father and Polyakov had an in depth friendship that went again years, to their first assembly in Burma within the mid-1960s. on the peak of the chilly struggle, the Russian provided the CIA an unfiltered view into the vault of Soviet intelligence. His collaboration helped make sure that tensions among the 2 nuclear superpowers didn't boost right into a capturing conflict.

Spanning fifty years and 3 continents, Spies within the Family is a deeply researched account of 2 households on contrary aspects of the deadly espionage campaigns of the chilly struggle, and males whose dedicated friendship lasted a life-time, till the devastating ultimate days in their lives. With impeccable insider entry to either households in addition to a professional CIA and FBI officials, Dillon is going past the fog of secrecy to craft an unforgettable tale of friendship and betrayal, double brokers and clandestine lives, that demanding situations our notions of patriotism, exposing the commonality among peoples of opposing political fiscal structures.

Both a gripping story of undercover agent craft and a relocating own tale, Spies within the Family is a useful and heart-rending work.

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