The man with the poison gun : a Cold War spy story
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The man with the poison gun : a Cold War spy story
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- Label
- The man with the poison gun : a Cold War spy story
- Title remainder
- a Cold War spy story
- Statement of responsibility
- Serhii Plokhy
- Subject
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- Audiobooks
- Bandera, Stepan, 1909-1959
- Bandera, Stepan, 1909-1959 -- Assassination
- Biographies
- Biography
- Espionage, Soviet
- Espionage, Soviet -- Germany -- History
- Germany
- Germany (West)
- History
- Poisoning
- Poisoning -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Political crimes and offenses
- Political crimes and offenses -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Political refugees
- Political refugees -- Germany (West) -- Biography
- Politics and government
- 1900-1999
- Rebet, Lev, 1912-1957 -- Assassination
- Soviet Union
- Spies
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Stashynsʹkyĭ, Bohdan, 1931-
- Stashynsʹkyĭ, Bohdan, 1931-
- Ukraine
- Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991
- Ukrainians
- Ukrainians -- Germany -- Biography
- Rebet, Lev, 1912-1957
- Assassination
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed secret weapon--a spray pistol delivering liquid poison that, if fired into the victim's face, killed him without leaving any trace. Wracked by a guilty conscience, Stashinsky escaped with his wife under the tragic cover of their infant son's funeral, and crossed into West Berlin just hours before the Berlin Wall was erected. In 1962, after spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case in Cold War history. Stashinsky's testimony, implicating the Kremlin rulers in political assassinations carried out abroad, shook the world of international politics. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders, the former head of the KGB and Leonid Brezhnev's rival, Aleksandr Shelepin. In West Germany, the Stashinsky trial changed the way in which Nazi criminals were prosecuted. Using the Stashinsky case as a precedent, many defendants in such cases claimed, as had the Soviet spy, that they were simply accessories to murder, while their superiors, who ordered the killings, were the main perpetrators."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- APL
- Dewey number
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- 327.1247043092
- B
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- DK266.3
- LC item number
- .P463 2016
- Literary text for sound recordings
- history
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Clive Chafer
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
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