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The spy memoirs of one of the most highly successful Soviet agents, during the times of America's most important events.

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This is a firsthand account of the espionage activities of Julius Rosenberg, Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, Morton Sobell, and others, by the key agent of the Soviet Union’s Committee for State Security (KGB).

Alexander Feklisov handled and managed their cooperation in sharing weapons secrets with Stalin’s USSR. In addition to his intimate knowledge of these idealists, Alexander Feklisov was fond of them and the purity of their motivations and was sympathetically involved in their domestic and personal lives.

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