{"id":2565,"date":"2020-03-26T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:26:13","slug":"the-spy-and-the-traitor-the-greatest-espionage-story-of-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Macintyre, Kindle Version, 2018, Broadway Books, Reprint edition<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB agent who began providing information to MI6.\u00c2\u00a0 The story is intriguing, especially since I had never heard of this individual and the extraordinary impact of the information he provided.\u00c2\u00a0 The author makes the case that his information may have prevented a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and the USSR and also may have led to the trust that Reagan and Gorbachev seemed to instantly feel when they first met.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, the book was an interesting read, although it bogged down a bit, not because the the author&#8217;s treatment, but there were times when not much was happening.\u00c2\u00a0 Toward the end, however, it got pretty exciting due to events that I won&#8217;t relate here as it would spoil it for a reader. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3.5 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ben Macintyre, Kindle Version, 2018, Broadway Books, Reprint edition This is the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB agent who began providing information to MI6.\u00c2\u00a0 The story is intriguing, especially since I had never heard of this individual and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2565\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}