The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski

Tim Tate

The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
19 May 2022
Pages
416
ISBN
9780552177689

The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski

Tim Tate

A compelling yet tragic portrait of one of the most important, yet least understood, spies of the early Cold War. This is the dramatic, untold true story of Goleniewski’s dealings in espionage and skulduggery.

Spring 1958- a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West.

His name was Michael Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.

Tim Tate draws on a wealth of previously-unpublished primary source documents to tell the dramatic true story of the best spy the west ever lost and how he exposed hundreds of KGB agents operating undercover in the West; from George Blake and the ‘Portland Spy Ring’, to a senior Swedish Air Force and NATO officer and a traitor inside the Israeli government.

Ultimately, this is a compelling biography of love and loyalty, of courage and treachery, and of fantasies and greed…

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