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In the dark days and nights of World War II through the Chilly War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a significant player in Russia's notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Growing through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of the way the spy and politics games are played, he "managed" American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as dual agents, offered as a standing officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special projects from the Kremlin. Throughout a 1994 television program about previous spymasters, Kondrashev achieved and began an in depth friendship with a previous foe, ex-CIA officer Tennent H. "Pete" Bagley, whom the Russian asked to help write his memoirs. Because Bagley understood so about a lot of Kondrashev's job (they had been on contrary sides in several operations), his penetrating questions and insights uncover pieces of never-revealed espionage history that rival anything found in the webpages of Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, or John le Carr. This consists of chilling stories of making it through Stalin's purges while superiors and acquaintances did not, of plotting to uncover the Berlin Tunnel, of quelling the Hungarian Trend and "Prague Springtime" independence moves, and of helping in arranging the ultimate disposition of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Kondrashev also details equally fascinating KGB propaganda and disinformation attempts that shaped Western attitudes throughout the Chilly War. Because publication of these memoirs was prohibited by Putin's regime, Bagley guaranteed Kondrashev to keep these things shared in the Western. They are actually available to all who are fascinated by vivid stories of international intrigue.
