S2 Book Club: Spymaster - Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief

Podcast Version: https://www.buzzsprout.com/868255/13689954

October's book is: Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution.

00:00 - Introduction
02:11 - The Author and Sources
07:31 - Preface
08:43 - Breaking American Ciphers - And Starting a War
10:04 - Two Views of Culture
12:31 - Target: The American Embassy
16:48 - Inside a Deadly Purge
22:18 - Into Foreign Intelligence - And England
28:59 - A Mole and a Tunnel
33:54 - "Why Do You Need All Those People Here?"
36:10 - A Unique Look at the Hungarian Revolution
36:28 - Spy Center Vienna
36:54 - The KGB's Nazl Underground
38:46 - Richard Sorge Redux
39:55 - Organizing to Disinform
41:22 - Active Measures
43:27 - "How Could CIA Ever Have Believed in Than Man?"
47:54 - The Top Hat Paradox
49:47 - Prague Spring at the Politburo
50:26 - Other Places
51:08 - The Irony of Helsinki and Watching it End
51:44 - Epilogue and Appendix
52:50 - Closing Thoughts and Comments

Notes and Corrections:
*16:09 - Not American, he was Swedish.

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