![]() ![]() The operation had three purposes: to flush out the Soviet spies Cassidy would come in contact with, to learn how the Soviets functioned in the US, and to occupy them so they would have less time to recruit real agents. ![]() Cassidy met his Soviet handlers at a YMCA volleyball game in 1959, and for the next 22 years, through a series of secret signals, codes, and message drops like hollowed-out rocks, passed them countless secrets, all carefully vetted by a top-secret Pentagon committee that weighed each bit of information and misinformation. Though journalist Wise (Molehunt, 1992) works hard to make the story more spectacular than it actually is-after all, the annals of spying are chock-full of long-term agents-he does create a compelling portrait of Joe Cassidy, an American army officer recruited to serve as a “dangle” for the KGB. ![]() A solidly told tale of a 22-year espionage operation aimed at foiling attempts by the Soviet Union to pilfer nerve-gas secrets. ![]()
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