Special tasks
the memoirs of an unwanted witness, a Soviet spymaster
By Pavel Sudoplatov
"Special tasks" was published by Little, Brown in 1995 - Boston, it has 527 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Special tasks” Metadata:
- Title: Special tasks
- Author: Pavel Sudoplatov
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 527
- Publisher: Little, Brown
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publish Location: Boston
“Special tasks” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Biography - Espionage, Soviet - History - Intelligence officers - Intelligence service - Officials and employees - Soviet Espionage - Soviet Union - Soviet Union. Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del - Spies - Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti - Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti - Intelligence service, soviet union - Espionage, russian - Intelligence service, russia (federation) - Sudoplatov, Pavel - Biographies
- People: Pavel Sudoplatov (1907-) - Pavel Sudoplatov (1907-1996)
- Places: History - Soviet Union
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xxxi, 527 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL563023M - OL2087537W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 32575764
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96147290
- ISBN-13: 9780316821155
- ISBN-10: 0316821152
- All ISBNs: 0316821152 - 9780316821155
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"Special tasks" Description:
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According to KGB archives, Pavel Sudoplatov directed the secretive Administration for Special Tasks. This department was responsible for kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and guerrilla warfare during World War II; it also set up illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe, and, most crucially, carried out atomic espionage in the United States, great Britain, and Canada. Sudoplatov served the KGB for over fifty years, at one point controlling more than twenty thousand guerrillas, moles, and spies. But his involvement with the most nefarious Soviet activities - and the rulers who ordered them - made Sudoplatov an unwanted witness, and he was arrested in 1953 after Beria's fall. Despite torture and solitary confinement he refused to "confess," disavowing any criminal actions. He spent fifteen years in prison, then struggled two decades more for rehabilitation. Special Tasks is an astonishing memoir and a singular historical document of a man who knew and did too much for the Soviet empire.
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