The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
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- Author：Tim Tate
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Summary
Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West。
His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important， yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War。 Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now。
Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost - of how Goleniewski exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the 'Portland Spy Ring'， to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government。 The information he produced devastated intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain。
Bringing together love and loyalty， courage and treachery， betrayal， greed and， ultimately， insanity， here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most significant but little known spies of the Cold War。
Acclaim for The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold:
'Totally gripping 。 。 。 a masterpiece。 Tate lifts the lid on one of the most important and complex spies of the Cold War， who passed secrets to the West and finally unmasked traitor George Blake。'
HELEN FRY， author of MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
'A wonderful and at times mind-boggling account of a bizarre and almost forgotten spy - right up to the time when he's living undercover in Queens， New York and claiming to be the last of the Romanoffs。'
SIMON KUPER， author of The Happy Traitor
'A highly readable and thoroughly researched account of one of the Cold War's most intriguing and tragic spy stories。' OWEN MATTHEWS， author of An Impeccable Spy
His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important， yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War。 Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now。
Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost - of how Goleniewski exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the 'Portland Spy Ring'， to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government。 The information he produced devastated intelligence services on both sides of the Iron Curtain。
Bringing together love and loyalty， courage and treachery， betrayal， greed and， ultimately， insanity， here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most significant but little known spies of the Cold War。
Acclaim for The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold:
'Totally gripping 。 。 。 a masterpiece。 Tate lifts the lid on one of the most important and complex spies of the Cold War， who passed secrets to the West and finally unmasked traitor George Blake。'
HELEN FRY， author of MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
'A wonderful and at times mind-boggling account of a bizarre and almost forgotten spy - right up to the time when he's living undercover in Queens， New York and claiming to be the last of the Romanoffs。'
SIMON KUPER， author of The Happy Traitor
'A highly readable and thoroughly researched account of one of the Cold War's most intriguing and tragic spy stories。' OWEN MATTHEWS， author of An Impeccable Spy
Reviews
Liam Ostermann
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There is at least one if not two other biographies of Goleniewski available at the moment and I can't see myself reading another - I think Mr。 Tate has managed to capture all the essentials of this fascinating and in someway tragic， if also absurd individual。I first heard of Goleniewski via the books of Guy Richard who played a large part in promoting conspiracy theories about the the last tsar and his family escaping the massacre in Ekaterinburg all in support of a defector from communist Polan There is at least one if not two other biographies of Goleniewski available at the moment and I can't see myself reading another - I think Mr。 Tate has managed to capture all the essentials of this fascinating and in someway tragic， if also absurd individual。I first heard of Goleniewski via the books of Guy Richard who played a large part in promoting conspiracy theories about the the last tsar and his family escaping the massacre in Ekaterinburg all in support of a defector from communist Poland， Goleniewski， who claimed to be the tsarevich Alexei。 He wasn't， but he was a bona fide defector who had supplied and brought with him when he defected lots of useful information。 Unfortunately Goleniewski fell foul of the neurotic paranoia of James Jesus Angleton at the CIA who decided he was one of many deep Soviet plants and thus not trustworthy。 I won't go into the whole story， but it is well worth reading - primarily because when his name was first revealed back in the early 1970s the amount that was known about what was going on in the world of spooks and spies in the UK and USA was tiny compared to now and it would be years before the idiocy of Angleton's views was made clear to everyone - though how the greatest and most expensive spy service in the world had as their Soviet expert a man who neither spoke nor read Russian or any East European language and had no real knowledge of the countries history， literature， politics， etc。 perhaps explains why the CIA is a spy service which is actually very poor at gathering information。 It should be remembered （though it can't be blamed on Angleton who was long forcibly retired by that point） that the CIA was taken totally by surprise by the collapse of the Soviet Union - not a whisper， hint or imagining that there was anything wrong with the whole edifice - not a very smart spy service。Anyway this is a fascinating addition to the whole cold war spy story and as well it is a fascinating lacuna to the Tsar and all his family or maybe only some members of his family weren't murdered but escaped story - a curious but amusing delusion that still holds some people in its sway。 。。。more
Alex
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Tate’s non-fiction exploration of one of the KGB’s most colourful defectors is thorough and fascinating， with extreme attention to detail and reference to files held by the CIA， FBI， MI5/6， the Polish UB， and more。 Ultimately a sad and somewhat anticlimactic account， this book fits in well as an American perspective on a figure of Cold War espionage next to Ben Macintyre’s ‘A Spy Amongst Friends’ and ‘The Spy and the Traitor’
LEO T BROPHY
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Interesting A great deal of detail with a mix of spice。 The idea this all happened is both fascinating and shocking。
Terryw
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one of the best true spy books ever
Mike
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