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Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher's World |  | Author: Stuart A. Herrington
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 400969
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0156011174
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.12171701713
EAN: 9780156011174
ASIN: 0156011174
Publication Date: October 19, 2000
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As director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972 and 1988, thousands of highly classified documents were sold to the Soviet Union and her Warsaw pact surrogates. They were secrets so sensitive that had war broken out in Central Europe, our ability to defend our NATO allies would have been seriously compromised. It was up to Herrington and his team to root out the elusive spy ring responsible for this treachery. An intriguing page-turner with more twists and turns than a spy novel, Traitors Among Us guides us through the intricate spy catcher's world of Cold War Berlin, showing us how the "game" was played when the stakes were as high as national survival.
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 Lessons still to be learned January 9, 2010
Dr B Leland Baker (Colorado Springs, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally do not read "spy" novels because they are often so unrealistic. However, Colonel Stuart Herrington tells a true tale of espionage that occurred during the Cold War and could have ended tragically for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces due to the greed of a few soldiers. I served in the US Army in Mainz and Bad Kreuznach, Germany during the 1970s and 1980s and heard absolutely nothing from my chain of command about these spy rings during that period. So, this book was a real eye-opener for me! The damage done by spies Clyde Conrad and James Hall would have been measured in dead soldiers if the Warsaw Block had attacked NATO. As a career soldier, I kept asking myself how the chain of command could miss so many of the clues on their espionage ... but the recent killings by a Muslim officer at Fort Hood Texas reveals that these are lessons yet to be learned. This book was more captivating than a James Bond movie because it dealt with "real" events. Sincere thanks to COL Herrington for writing this book and to our counterintelligence agents who persevered and prevailed.
great February 27, 2009
EARL
this was a great book! I Knew Zoltan Szabo and had no clue of his involvment in espionage in germany. How sad
Well written and exciting thriller March 25, 2005
laz_254 (miami, fl United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent book. I couldn't let it go and managed to read it in 4 days. Written so that you don't have to be a spook to understand it. Again, a very good book. Buy it, read it.
 Solid Cold War memoir February 1, 2005
Jack Eutaw (South Carolina, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A meaty, readable memoir of an officer's counterintelligence career during the Cold War. It could get a bit tedious in places, and Herrington has an annoying habit of inserting unnecessary rah-rah patriotism, but overall a solid read. The Clyde Conrad case is one of the most important, but least known, spy cases in U.S. history.
Captivating from cover to cover...fantastic narrative here April 14, 2004
Stephen M. Zielinski (Depew, NY United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but once I read the first page I was hooked. The author provides two classic cases of the worst treachery the United States military has ever been exposed to, and he writes well because he was involved in both of them. The intrigue and research into the cross-departmental assistance was very informative in light of today's "territorial" exclusiveness. A well written work that is easy for a lay person to follow, I highly recommend this book.
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