Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

The liar, how a double agent in the CIA became the Cold War's last honest man, Benjamin Cunningham

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The liar

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Benjamin Cunningham

how a double agent in the CIA became the Cold War's last honest man

In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely, and they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. They were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War. Using newly declassified documents, interrogation tapes and extraordinary first-hand accounts from the Koechers themselves, Cunningham reconstructs their double lives and the fading Cold War, where a strange moral fog made it hard to know what truth was being fought for, and to what end

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