Kessler, Ronald. Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy.
New York: Pocket Books, 1990. 340 pages.
"Moscow Station" tells the story of the KGB's efforts to penetrate
the U.S. embassy in Moscow, mainly by planting eavesdropping devices and
by assigning attractive Soviet women to bait U.S. personnel. Examples of
the former are the microwave cavity resonator discovered inside the Great
Seal in 1952 and the thirteen bugged IBM typewriters discovered in 1984,
which were being used in secure areas of the Moscow embassy and the
Leningrad consulate. About half of the book reconstructs the investigation
of Clayton J. Lonetree, an example of a "honey trap." Lonetree, a young
marine guard, confessed in 1987 after passing secrets to his Soviet
girlfriend, who was employed at the embassy, and her KGB control officer,
Alexei G. Yefimov.
Award-winning correspondent Ronald Kessler spent fifteen years at the
Washington Post, and has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
His books include "Spy vs. Spy," "Moscow Station," and "The Richest Man in
the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi." The first two are remarkable for
his excellent contacts within current U.S. counterintelligence circles,
while the book on Khashoggi was an international bestseller. Kessler lives
in Potomac, Maryland.
ISBN 0-671-69338-7
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