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Cherkashin, Victor, 1932-

Spy handler : memoir of a KGB officer : the true story of the man who recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames / Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer. - New York : Basic Books, c2005. - xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"A Member of the Perseus Books Group."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inside the lion's den : Washington Station -- The training of a KGB handler -- Cold War frontline : Beirut -- Treason -- Intrigue at Moscow centre -- Washington Station : the redefector -- Washington Station : the most dangerous spy -- Washington Station : how to catch a spy -- Washington Station : the biggest catch : Hanssen -- The final years of the KGB -- Wild capitalism on the streets of new Russia -- Lessons of Cold War espionage.

ISBN: 0465009689 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Cherkashin, Victor, 1932-

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intelligence officers--Soviet Union--Biography.
Espionage, Soviet--History.
Intelligence service--Soviet Union.
Spies--Soviet Union.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Soviet Union--Foreign relations.

Dewey Class. No.: 327.12470092 B