Book- Mole - The True Story of the First Russian Spy to Become an American Counterspy

Hood tells the story of Pyotr Popov, a Russian intelligence man recruited by the CIA early in the Cold War as a double agent.

Born a peasant.

Trained as a spy.

Shot as a traitor.

The place is Vienna.

The year is 1952.

The Cold War is at its most frigid.

A peasant who rose to high rank in Soviet Military Intelligence is about to become the first Soviet official to ever work for the West.

It is an act that will provide the CIA with the innermost secrets of the Russian military and will plunge the man himself into the harrowing life of the penetration agent, or "mole" - the lonely man in the enemy camp.

288 pages.