Epstein,E. Deception. 1989
Epstein, Edward Jay. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the
CIA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 335 pages.
Edward Jay Epstein began as a Warren Commission critic ("Inquest,"
1966) -- not because Oswald wasn't the lone gunman, but because he was a
tool of the KGB ("Legend," 1978). This perspective came from James Angleton,
whom Epstein began interviewing in 1976, and from an interview with Yuri
Nosenko arranged by CIA-connected editors at the Reader's Digest.
Between 1979 and 1985 Epstein attended a series of academic conferences
on KGB deception, sponsored by universities, foundations, and the CIA. From
these he began to see deception as a strategic problem. The second half of
this book examines some major deceptions in the twentieth century: the
Soviet "Trust" in the 1920s, Hitler's armament inventory in the 1930s,
Soviet faking for our spy satellites, and the mole wars. Then Epstein looks
at Glasnost in the Soviet Union. It's all happened before -- five times by
his count -- so Gorbachev's Glasnost must be fakery as well, designed to
provide the USSR with easy cash and credits from the West.
Epstein is sincere and honest, he's a good writer, and he generally
names his sources in the intelligence community. That makes him worth
reading, even after Angleton has been largely discredited and Epstein's
premise is forced to fly in the face of almost all available evidence.
ISBN 0-671-41543-3
- ADLER RENATA (323)
- AGANBEGYAN ABEL (237-8, 241)
- AGEE PHILIP BURNETT FRANKLIN (288)
- AGOU IGOR (13)
- ALLEN CHARLES E (223-4)
- ALLIED-AMERICAN CORPORATION (250)
- ALLISON GRAHAM T JR (323)
- ANDERSON GEORGE W JR (ADM) (114, 269)
- ANDERSON MARTIN CARL (323)
- ANGLETON JAMES JESUS
- ARBATOV GEORGI A (235-7, 261, 278)
- ASAHINA ROBERT (324)
- ASHER ABBEY (323)
- BAGLEY TENNENT H (PETE) (46, 49-64, 79, 94)
- BAILEY GEOFFREY (295)
- BANFIELD EDWARD C (323)
- BARNETT DAVID HENRY (187-8)
- BARRON JOHN (AUTHOR) (294)
- BEICHMAN ARNOLD (323)
- BLEE DAVID HENRY (198)
- BOKHAN SERGEI I (201)
- BOYCE CHRISTOPHER JOHN (159-60)
- BRANIGAN WILLIAM A (114)
- BRUNOVSKY V I (295)
- BUCKLEY WILLIAM (CIA) (219)
- BURGESS GUY FRANCIS DE MONCY (37)
- BUSH GEORGE H.W. (271)
- CASEY WILLIAM JOSEPH (113, 213-4)
- CLARKE BRUCE C JR (113)
- CLINE RAY STEINER (114)
- CODEVILLA ANGELO M (154, 156, 160-1)
- COHEN STUART (CIA) (113-4)
- COLBY WILLIAM EGAN (89-90, 98-101, 104, 113)
- CONQUEST ROBERT (323)
- COTTRELL ALVIN J (306)
- COVERDALE GARRISON B (174)
- DALEY TAD (306)
- DAVIS MERTON E (302)
- DE GRAFFENREID KENNETH E (323)
- DE MOWBRAY STEPHEN ARTHUR (71-2)
- DE VOSJOLI PHILIPPE THYRAUD (65-6, 69-71, 323)
- DERIABIN PETER S (67)
- DOBBS LOU (323)
- DOUGLASS JOSEPH D JR (303)
- DUBBERSTEIN WALDO H (284)
- DULLES ALLEN WELSH (40-1)
- DUNLAP JACK EDWARD (173-5)
- DZERZHINSKY FELIKS E (247-8, 250-1)
- DZIAK JOHN J (114)
- EDEMSKI SERGEI A (172-3)
- ELLIS CHARLES HOWARD (DICKIE) (146)
- ERMARTH FRITZ W (113)
- FELFE HEINZ PAUL JOHANN (185-6)
- FINDER JOSEPH A (323)
- FLETCHER SCHOOL LAW AND DIPLOMACY (114)
- FOX THOMAS D (172-5)
- FRASER REBECCA (323)
- FRIEDMAN MILTON (323)
- GAITSKELL HUGH TODD (80-1)
- GALLOWAY DONALD H (32)
- GERSHWIN LAWRENCE K (113)
- GHEJA IGOR (201)
- GHORBANIFAR MANUCHER (218-24)
- GODSON ROY (296)
- GOLDHAMER HERBERT (127, 299)
- GOLDHAMER JOAN (299)
- GOLDSMITH JAMES MICHAEL (323)
- GOLENIEWSKI MICHAEL M (295)
- GOLITSIN ANATOLI M
- GORBACHEV MIKHAIL S (273)
- GORDIEVSKY OLEG A (201)
- GRAHAM DANIEL ORRIN (114)
- GUNN WILLIAM (294)
- HAMMARSKJOLD DAG (287)
- HAMMER ARMAND (249-51, 259-60, 266-7, 276-7, 307)
- HAMMER JULIUS J (249-50)
- HANDEL MICHAEL I (115, 296)
- HANESCH KARL (283-4)
- HARRIS WILLIAM R (164-8, 299, 301-2)
- HART JOHN LIMOND (45, 51, 62-3)
- HARVEY DONALD P (ADM) (114)
- HELMS CYNTHIA (44)
- HELMS RICHARD MCGARRAH (43-6, 61, 78, 94-8)
- HEUER RICHARDS J JR (196-9, 303-4)
- HOLLIS ROGER HENRY (72-3)
- HOOD WILLIAM JOSEPH (114)
- HOOK SIDNEY (323)
- HOOVER J EDGAR (46-9, 95-6)
- HORELICK ARNOLD L (196)
- HOWARD EDWARD LEE (193, 203-4, 206)
- HUTCHINSON H FREDERICK JR (113, 196)
- INMAN BOBBY RAY (150-1)
- ISAKOV VADIM A (169)
- JAMESON DONALD F.B. (JAMIE) (12-3, 19)
- JONES REGINALD VICTOR (114-5, 118, 296)
- JOSHUA WYNFRED (114)
- KALARIS GEORGE THOMAS (113)
- KAMPILES WILLIAM PETER (157, 301)
- KATZ AMROM H (162-4, 169, 302)
- KEEGAN GEORGE J (GEN) (114)
- KELLY MERRILL T (114)
- KENNEDY ROBERT FRANCIS (79)
- KHRUSHCHEV NIKITA (80, 257-60)
- KISEVALTER GEORGE G (53)
- KNORR KLAUS (113)
- KOSTIKOV SERGEI (287-8)
- KRAUSS MELVYN B (323)
- LACKLAND WILLIAM (152-4)
- LEAHY PATRICK J (D-VT) (210)
- LEHMAN RICHARD (113)
- LEVIN EDMUND (323)
- LINDBERGH CHARLES A JR (133)
- LUPSHA PETER A (323)
- MACLEAN DONALD DUART (37)
- MANOR AMOS (293)
- MARSHALL ANDREW W (115, 126-7)
- MARTENS LUDWIG C.A.K. (250)
- MARTIN ARTHUR (73)
- MARTIN WILLIAM H (166-7)
- MASTERMAN JOHN C (124)
- MAURY JOHN M JR (293)
- MCFARLANE ROBERT C (BUD) (224)
- MCMAHON JOHN NORMAN (204-5)
- MIHALKA MICHAEL (299)
- MILER NEWTON SCOTTY (73-5, 78, 114)
- MIRONOV NIKOLAI ROMANOVICH (264)
- MITCHELL BERNON F (166-7)
- MOELLERING JOHN H (192)
- MOORER THOMAS H (ADM) (306)
- MURPHY DAVID E (56, 60-2, 94)
- MYAGOV ALEKSEI (158)
- NOLAN JAMES E JR (114)
- NORTH OLIVER L (221-2, 224)
- NOSENKO YURI I
- OGARKOV NIKOLAI V (158, 264)
- OLESON PETER C (152, 154)
- OLMER LIONEL HERBERT (269)
- OPPERPUT EDWARD (26)
- OSWALD LEE HARVEY (12-3, 285-7)
- PACEPA ION MIKHAI (267)
- PAISLEY JOHN ARTHUR (272)
- PAPICH SAM J (293)
- PELTON RONALD WILLIAM (204, 206)
- PENKOVSKY OLEG V (79-80, 189)
- PETTY CLARE EDWARD (293)
- PHILBY KIM (31-42)
- PICKETT GEORGE (CHIP) (152-4)
- PIPES RICHARD E (270-2)
- POINDEXTER JOHN M (224)
- POLLARD JONATHAN JAY (114)
- POOL ITHIEL DE SOLA (323)
- POPOV PYOTR S (189)
- POTTINGER J STANLEY (294)
- PRATT DONOVAN E (114)
- PURCELL DONALD J (114)
- QADDAFI MUAMMAR (232-3)
- RHODIE ALEXANDRA (323)
- ROCCA RAYMOND G (22-8, 114)
- RODAL BEREL (323)
- RODIN NIKOLAI B (81, 285, 288)
- ROMERSTEIN HERBERT (323)
- SAPOLSKY HARVEY M (323)
- SCHLESINGER JAMES RODNEY (98-9)
- SCHOENFELD GABRIEL (323)
- SEJNA JAN (264)
- SHACKLEY THEODORE GEORGE (114, 218)
- SHADRIN NICHOLAS GEORGE (209)
- SHELEPIN ALEXANDER N (82, 97)
- SLAWSON W DAVID (294)
- SMITH NORMAN LONGFELLOW (114)
- SMITH RICHARD CRAIG (195)
- SMITH WALTER BEDELL (38-9)
- SOLIE BRUCE (294)
- SONNENFELDT HELMUT (266)
- SOWELL THOMAS (323)
- STEWART GORDON MATTHEWS (294)
- STUBER ANDREA (323)
- SULLIVAN DAVID S (304)
- SULLIVAN WILLIAM C (46-9, 118, 168-9)
- SUSSMAN COLLEEN (306)
- SUVOROV VIKTOR (158)
- TACEY ROBERT P (315)
- TAYLOR RUFUS LACKLAND (293)
- TCHEBOTAREV ANATOLI (211)
- THOMPSON COLIN R (202, 205)
- THOMPSON EDWARD K (43)
- TOLKACHEV ADOLF G (201)
- TOVAR B HUGH (114)
- TURNER STANSFIELD (151, 195, 198, 234, 271-2)
- ULAM ADAM B (323)
- VERITY C WILLIAM (276)
- VUILLEMEN JOSEPH (132-3)
- WALLOP MALCOLM A (R-WY) (154-5, 161, 205)
- WALTERS VERNON ANTHONY (114)
- WANNALL W RAYMOND (114)
- WHALEN WILLIAM HENRY (172-3, 182)
- WHALEY BARTON (115, 122, 296)
- WILSON EDWIN PAUL (282-3)
- WILSON HAROLD (PM) (80-1)
- WINTERBOTHAM FREDERICK W (131)
- WISNER FRANK GARDNER (33-4, 39-40)
- WOHLSTETTER ALBERT J (268-9)
- YOPUNG HARRY F (306)
- YURCHENKO VITALY S (198-215)
- ZUEHLKE ARTHUR A JR (114)
- ZYCHER BENJAMIN (306)
name search
home page