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Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer
by Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer
I liked this one. Cherkashin served in the KGB from the 1950s through the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was posted in various places around the world, including Washington, Beirut, Australia, India and West Germany. He was the principal handler of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, two of the worst traitors in U.S. history. Well written and entertaining if you are interested in HUMINT.
I have to share the following excerpt, which recites a conversation between Hanssen and former NSC counterintelligence director David Major:
Hanssen: "You know why the FBI can't beat the KGB?"
Major: "Bob, what's the answer?"
Hanssen: "Because they don't practice the theory of OODA loops."
LMAO
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