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    The Billion Dollar Spy | Summary
    The Billion Dollar Spy | Summary
    The Billion Dollar Spy | Summary
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    The Billion Dollar Spy | Summary

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    Learn About America's Most Valuable Spy In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!

    Hoffman’s look into the story of Tolkachev, the billion-dollar spy, is exciting and thrilling, while also being a tragic emotional roller coaster. Hoffman presents the events in such a way the raises the stakes of each operation to its peak.

    Every meeting, whether between Tolkachev or another of the spies featured in the book is supplemented by the exact right amount of background information—not so much that it becomes boring, but enough to know just how much danger everybody is in. The inclusion of background details about each person creates palpable emotional attachment when things start going wrong. Hoffman’s write-up of these events reminds us that the people of the CIA and the citizens of the Soviet Union, even KGB officers, are all real people striving for what they believe is good and right.

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    •How The American Government Worked With Foreign Spys

    •What Kind Of Information The Top Russian Spy Provided

    •Why This Spy Was Caught And Killed In The Soviet Union

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummary Station
    Release dateNov 5, 2016
    ISBN9781370133314
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      The Billion Dollar Spy | Summary - Summary Station

      Summary and Analysis of David E. Hoffman’s

      "The Billion Dollar Spy:

      A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal"

      By Summary Station

      Copyright © 2015 by Summary Station

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2015

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Epilogue

      Thanks for Reading

      About Summary Station

      Prologue

      Hoffman sets the tone by describing an elaborate plan to reestablish contact with a valuable spy. It’s 1982, and the CIA uses phones they know are going to be monitored by the KGB to plan a fake birthday party. Two men and the wives are driving down the road, one fake wife holding a birthday cake. They know they are being followed. The car turns out of sight, but will only be out of view for a few seconds. Quickly, one of the men slips out of the car while the wife with the cake immediately places it in the now empty seat. She pushes a button and a fake head pops out, all before they fall back into the sight of the following KGB

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