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File Size: 818 KB
Print Length: 372 pages
Publisher: Berkley (January 24, 2008)
Publication Date: January 24, 2008
Language: English
ASIN: B000WSFBSG
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I picked up this book up between seasons of “The Americans†to make sure I was still getting a bit of Cold War intrigue, and thankfully, the book was thoroughly entertaining. The book does cover different ground than the unrelated fictional TV show, but its chapters explained some really interesting bits of background that happened in real life (and on the show itself), like how agents and sources were recruited, and like the show, a lot of time was spent on the main subject’s personal and family life. Since his personal experiences played a role in his ultimate decision to defect to the USA, these sections were not only really riveting but also useful, considering the spy vs spy anecdotes in the book. I mention this because I was concerned about whether I could believe anything in the book, considering it supposedly details covert intelligence operations from the not too distant past. From the opening pages, the author faces this question head on, and through explaining his methods early on, and detailing wherever possible his supplemental research, the question of believing every anecdote of intrigue becomes less relevant. Overall, a great read with some interesting commentary on post-Cold War international relations.Also recommended: The Cold War: A New History – by John Lewis Gaddis
Pete Earley has created an very engaging and entertaining story of the life of a leading Russian Spy. While it is a one-sided story, there is undoubtedly more that one perspective and corroboration is difficult, this is an insightful book.Clearly there are limitations on the level of disclosure, so for the older the material, Pete provides several angles and perspectives on interpretation and importance. One spy’s treasure can be viewed as another spy’s insignificant junk. Some of the interesting stories are the extent to which the UN could be considered a “nest of spiesâ€, it has to be the greatest single recruitment pool for all countries to build their information networks. The book also provides much insight into the Yeltsin administration and while it was a pivotal moment in Russian evolution, Yeltsin was not the right person to keep the democratic forces moving forward.This is my first 5 Star rating on this genre of non fiction.
Understanding Russia and its perspective is important. This book, giving a high level Russian spy's view of his country and why he defected to the west gives one mans account. The fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, the changes this period brought are important in international affairs. This book sheds light on what happened.
"Comrade J" is an excellent telling of the story of a top KGB (later SVR) agent who spied for Russia in the US and Canada. While there have been a number of books published about the lives of several former Russian spies, this one is different because the story of Sergei Tretyakov ("Comrade J") occured in the last days of the old Soviet Union. Tretyakov saw first-hand what the effects of the fall of Communism had both on Russia and upon the Russian security services.Tretyakov explains to the reader that under the Soviet Union the KGB and its members enjoyed great power and privileges. The "Center" -- the headquarters of the portion of the KGB that was responsible for spying on foreign countries, seemed like a palace to Tretyakov when he first reported there for duty. The premises were immaculate, and foreign consumer goods were available to KGB members at low prices -- something that the average Russian could only dream of. Discipline was rigid, harsh and arbitrary. KGB Generals lived like princes. This was Tretyakov's world and it was a world that he accepted and approved of and sought to rise within. When the Soviet Union fell, the KGB fell on hard times. It was split by Yeltsin into multiple security services much like the US model, with one service, the SVR, responsible for foreign intelligence much like the CIA is in the USA, while a different service performs internal security in a manner analogous to the FBI's functions in America. Tretyakov and his wife and daughter saw the prestige and power of the now-SVR fall on hard times. When he reported back to Russia shortly after Gorbachev's fall, the Center was no longer a palace. Like almost all institutions in Russia, the SVR was in a tremendous state of flux. For the first time it was underfunded such that the building became decrepit, (the restrooms lacked toilet paper and "resembled a latrine in a Russian railway station") and discipline at the Center disintegrated. KGB agents were resigning to try to make their fortunes in the private sector by seizing control of former State assets in gangster fashion. It is obvious that Tretyakov watched this upheaval with horror, and it was this, combined with the long years that he, his wife, and daughter had spent in the US and Canada, that ultimately caused him to decide to defect. Tretyakov cut a deal with the US intelligence services whereby he spied for America for a time in exchange for a promise, which America kept, to allow him and his family to eventually become Americans and be set up with financial security.I have read a number of stories about former KGB agents and Tretyakov's story in "Comrade J" has many common elements with these other memoirs. "Comrade J" is unique, however, because the events that led to Tretyakov's defection, i.e. the fall of Communism and the rise of Yeltsin and Putin, are recent, and Tretyakov witnessed the fall of the KGB and its rebirth as the SVR. Tretyakov's message is that the SVR is just as determined as was the KGB to wage aggressive and hostile espionage against the USA and other powers. He explains that the modern Russian Federation still views America as the "Main Target" (under the Soviet Union the term defining the USA was the "Main Enemy") with NATO and China also marked as prime targets of Russian hostility and espionage.One thing in this book eluded me to some extent, and that was the actual reason for Tretyakov's decision to change sides. One suspects that a large part of it was that his wife and daughter, who were allowed to travel with him and live in the US and Canada while he spied for the KGB, became Westernized. Certainly this was part of it. Tretyakov explains that his wife in particular was horrified at the gangsterism that rose as Communism fell, with former KGB and Soviet officials grabbing huge chunks of the Soviet economy, sometimes literally at gunpoint. The decay of the Center, and the decline of KGB power and discipline, which Tretyakov observed first-hand when he returned to Russia after the Soviet Union was dissolved, obviously jarred and horrified him. One suspects that if the old Soviet Union had somehow managed to survive in its Brezhnev form, with the KGB near the top of the Russian heirarchy, that Tretyakov would have remained a Russian patriot and not defected. Or did his family become sufficiently Americanized so that even then defection would have been a compelling option, as it has been for others? Perhaps even Tretyakov does not know for certain.This is a well-written and fascinating look at the decline of the Soviet Union as seen from the vantage point of the KGB, one of the USSR's primary institutions of power. Tretyakov's warning about the nature of the modern Russian government and its intentions are well worth considering. Highly recommended. RJB.
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Every Russian who came out during or just after the Cold War was naturally a master spy. Comade J's energy and his parents' pull got him into good schools whence he was plucked for the KGB. He survived training and the squalid politics of KGB headquarters and got assigned to prestigious foreign posts. "We lied to each other and to the world all the time." He enjoyed all the financial and tangible benefits that Soviet society could confer on a rising star. Comrade J was truly a very successful case officer for the Soviet service in Canada and the US.Finally the banality, boredom and barrenness of the Soviet system became intolerable; he left the Soviet Intelligence Service and settled in America. Before he left his post in New York he handed over thousands of documents to the FBI as a "defector in place".There is enough tittle tattle about trade craft and intrigue here for a good winter night's reading. Still the author has not told us what questions he asked of J or what he refused to answer. But "Comrade J" is not merely a spy book. It stands, even more importantly, as a metaphor for the USSR's collapse. Even the best rewarded like Sergei Tretyakov could not tolerate "The System" that made him what he was. Amazon purchase. 4 stars. S/ David J Kenney.
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