This was perhaps to be expected, considering all three were long since deceased, their stories over a half-century old. I eventually found a small group of operatives who fitted this bill – three, to be exact – and while their stories were utterly fascinating, I felt something was missing, a certain essential snap to the narrative. My main criteria in choosing who to focus on was that they had operated on the “front lines” of the Cold War, that they had matched wits with their Soviet counterparts in the field rather than from behind desks. This was a conflict waged in the shadows, of course, a spy-versus-spy contest, so I decided to tell the story through the eyes and experiences of a handful of early CIA officers. Some time earlier, I had begun work on a book detailing the history of the early Cold War, that period between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1950s when so much of the tense stalemate that would endure between East and West for four decades was set in motion.
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