On the eve of World War II, the little known Battle of Khalkan Gol between the Soviet Union and the Imperial Empire of Japan was fought to a climax on August 20-31, 1939. Suffice to say the Japanese Army in Mongolia was decisively defeated by elite Siberian Soviet army units at Khalkan Gol and Lake […]
Operation Snow, Pearl Harbor, and the Moles in the FDR Administration Read More »
In the noted biography, Flawed Patriot (2006) by former CIA agent and author Bayard Stockton, CIA legend Bill Harvey, was introduced to President John F. Kennedy as “America’s James Bond.”(1) Harvey was indeed a charismatic legend in the CIA, but two other, almost equally unknown American heroes, could also vie for the title. One of
An “American James Bond” — Anti-communist Freedom Fighter, Frank Sturgis Read More »
The Widow Spy is a real-life thriller that begins with a seemingly typical American housewife, Martha (“Marti”) D. Peterson, who in an unusual gesture invites her two teenage children out to lunch. This is twenty years after the main events subsequently depicted in the book. She had remarried and was living what appeared to be
From courageous widow to avenging spy! A book review of The Widow Spy (2012) Read More »
A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran by Reza Kahlili is one of the most heartrending and enthralling accounts I have ever read of courage, dissimulation, and personal suffering in the genre of espionage memoirs. This is the story of a courageous man, who
Spying from the belly of the beast in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran Read More »
A book published last year by Brian Latell, a professor, scholar, and retired CIA officer who had been active in foreign intelligence for 35 years, has not received the attention it deserves. The book, Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine (2012) relies extensively on information provided by half a dozen Cuban defectors and
Faria: Fidel Castro, Cuban Intelligence and the Assassination of JFK Read More »
On the DVD cover of the movie “The Good Shepherd,” former late night, talk show host Larry King wrote in the blurb, “The Best Spy movie ever.” He is completely wrong on this one! This film is, perhaps, one of the worst ever, but certainly not the best — not by a long shot! And
