The Penkovskiy papers /
by Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovskiy; Introd. and commentary by Frank Gibney. Foreword by Edward Crankshaw. Translated by Peter Deriabin.
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Co., 1965.
- xii, 397 p. : ill., facsimiles ; 21 cm.
With hard-supercover
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The system in which I live -- The dark world of the GRU -- The Prikhodko lecture -- Penkovskiy's committee -- The Khrushchev cult -- Khrushchev's army -- Espionage notes -- The great ones -- Atomic weapons and missiles -- Trouble in Moscow and abroad.
This book is about a man from Russia who passed mostly economic and technical information to the United States and Great Britain during the Cold War acting out of the deep conviction that he was serving the cause of human progress. However, the information that he passed was Top-secret and when caught he was sentanced to death by firing squad