The most damaging spy network of the Cold War - the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring - was comprised of several powerful and influential British citizens, and one American, Michael Straight. Born to a wealthy New England family, Straight attended Cambridge University in the 1930s, and there he fell in with the notorious circle of young men working for Soviet intelligence - Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby who was to become the most famous spy of the century. Over the following decades, Michael Straight led a secret life. While working at the State Department, he passed intelligence reports to a Russian agent. While running his family's magazine, "The New Republic", he funded several communist fronts. And while serving US presidents, including John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, he continued to meet with agents around the world. Despite Michael Straight's 1963 "confession" to the FBI that his covert activity ceased in 1941, investigative journalist and author Roland Perry has unearthed a different story.
Incorporating material from exclusive interviews with Michael Straight, members of his family and former KGB agents (Perry has been careful to corroborate all KGB-supplied information), as well as archival research from the CIA, FBI and Soviet intelligence, Perry presents a full and complete portrait of Michael Straight, the last of the Cold War spies.
- ISBN10 030681482X
- ISBN13 9780306814822
- Publish Date 13 June 2006 (first published 1 July 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Imprint Da Capo Press Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English