TY - BOOK AU - Beck,Melvin TI - Secret contenders: the myth of cold war counterintelligence SN - 0940380056 : AV - UB271.U52 B43 1984 U1 - 327.1/2/0924B 19 PY - 1984/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Sheridan Square Publications KW - Beck, Melvin, KW - United States KW - Central Intelligence Agency KW - History KW - Intelligence officers KW - Biography KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 N1 - Includes index; Operations officer : the road to Havana -- Havana follow-up : I see Fidel -- Tracking the Soviets : the Latin American desk -- Our man in Havana : keeping an eye on the Soviets -- First operations : trailing Russians in Cuba -- Defector inducement : the ship captain operation -- Operation Ox : counterintelligence bungling -- Planting bugs : the search for the Soviet Embassy-to-be -- The reluctant student operation : an innocent abroad? -- Communications intelligence : the Cuban codebook -- Crashing Fidel's hideaway : our man in Havana disappears -- Back at headquarters : professional musings and misgivings -- Off to Mexico City : short tour -- Permanent move to Mexico : non-official cover -- A kooky business : agent in shock -- Double agent operations : gamesmanship with the KGB and the GRU -- Types of agents : routine at the Mexico City station -- Extracurricular operations : political actions and case officer as agent -- High-tech surveillance : The KGB colonel -- Conclusions UR - http://www.archive.org/details/secretcontenders00beckrich UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2848450M ER -