A Spy Like No Other
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A Spy Like No Other

The Cuban Missile Crisis, the KGB and the Kennedy Assassination

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A Spy Like No Other

The Cuban Missile Crisis, the KGB and the Kennedy Assassination

About this book

The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US President John F. Kennedy's willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Holmes, a British diplomat in Moscow during the early 1960s, provides an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the Cold War. Kennedy's confidence in his brinkmanship hung on the evidence provided by Oleg Penkovsky, the MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence. While working on A Spy Like No Other, Holmes set out to tell Penkovsky's story. But, in doing so, he stumbled upon an astonishing chain of intrigue, betrayal and revenge that suggested a group of maverick Soviet intelligence officers had plotted the crime of the century. When Penkovsky's treachery was discovered, in the middle of the Missile Crisis, he was executed and his boss, General Ivan Serov (the head of Soviet military intelligence and a former head of the KGB), was subsequently dismissed. The Soviet propaganda machine then thoroughly discredited Serov and consigned him to obscurity. In this extraordinary new study, Holmes suggests Serov's anger at the West's 'victory' in Cuba and his resentment at the treachery of his protégé and his own downfall turned into an obsessive determination to gain revenge - and reveals the opportunity he had to do so by working with KGB rogue officers to enlist a young American loner, Lee Harvey Oswald, to assassinate the President.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. GLOSSARY
  7. PROLOGUE
  8. 1: MOSCOW 1953
  9. 2: BERLIN 1953
  10. 3: LONDON 1953
  11. 4: MOSCOW 1954
  12. 5: BERLIN 1954
  13. 6: BERLIN 1955
  14. 7: MOSCOW 1955
  15. 8: ANKARA 1955–6
  16. 9: MOSCOW 1956
  17. 10: BUDAPEST 1956
  18. 11: BERLIN 1956
  19. 12: MOSCOW 1957
  20. 13: MOSCOW 1958
  21. 14: CUBA 1958
  22. 15: CUBA 1959
  23. 16: MOSCOW 1959
  24. 17: MIAMI 1960
  25. 18: MOSCOW 1960
  26. 19: LONDON 1960
  27. 20: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 1)
  28. 21: LONDON 1961
  29. 22: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 1)
  30. 23: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 2)
  31. 24: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 2)
  32. 25: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 3)
  33. 26: WASHINGTON AND MIAMI 1961
  34. 27: CUBA 1961
  35. 28: WASHINGTON AND MIAMI 1962
  36. 29: MOSCOW 1962
  37. 30: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 1) THE DEVELOPING CRISIS
  38. 31: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 2) THE CRISIS DAYS
  39. 32: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 3) THE AFTERMATH
  40. 33: MOSCOW 1963 (PART 1)
  41. 34: WASHINGTON AND LONDON 1963
  42. 35: MOSCOW 1963 (PART 2)
  43. 36: USA 1963
  44. 37: MEXICO CITY 1963
  45. 38: DALLAS, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1963
  46. EPILOGUE
  47. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  48. APPENDIX 1
  49. APPENDIX 2
  50. INDEX
  51. Plates
  52. Advertisement
  53. Copyright