The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
Spybrary Spy Podcast · Jeff Quest
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Show Notes
This week we welcome Benjamin Cunningham to the show. Cunningham wrote the recently released book The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man a book that the publisher calls "the Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow." It's a wild story of swapping secrets, wife swapping and spy swaps.
We talk about the Prague Spring, declassified documents, and interviewing difficult subjects. All that and more in this episode with Spybrary host Jeff Quest.