Gordon Corera is a journalist and writer on intelligence and security issues. Since 2004 he has been a Security Correspondent for BBC News where he covers terrorism, cyber security, the work of intelligence agencies and other national security issues for BBC TV, Radio and Online. He has reported from across the United States, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and presented a number of programmes focusing on intelligence agencies including MI6, MI5, GCHQ, the CIA, NSA and Mossad. He is the author of ‘Intercept – The Secret History of Computers and Spies’, ‘MI6 – Life and Death in the British Secret Service’ and ‘Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the AQ Khan Network’.
REVIEWS FOR RUSSIANS AMONG US ‘This [is a] superb study of the
illegals system … In the West it was erroneously assumed that the
illegals programme ended with the Cold War, but as Corera proves it
was ramped up and modernised by Putin for the 21st century …
Alexander Poteyev was a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan
who rose to become deputy head of Directorate S. His story, told
here for the first time, is an extraordinary one… Corera tells this
astonishing tale with deft authority, placing it in the wider
context of Russian intelligence strategy. Few are better versed in
the intricacies of the continuing spy war between East and West.’
Ben Macintyre, The Times ‘Extremely readable … A lively and
disturbing account of the extraordinary events that led to, and the
terrible ones that followed, the Vienna spy swap in 2010, an
episode perhaps best remembered in the West for Anna Chapman, the
strikingly beautiful socialite who turned out to be a Russian spy.’
Telegraph ‘A lively and engrossing account of the FBI’s decade-long
counterintelligence operation … Corera correctly notes that the US
and UK were slow to appreciate Russia’s malign intent once Putin
became president … Offers a persuasive account of how Moscow had
adapted its espionage toolkit … A compelling book that combines
good storytelling with subtle understanding of spy methods old and
new’
Luke Harding, Observer
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