Did KGB use Marine scandal to protect Ames and Hanssen?
Comments: A must read for espionage buffs. Aldrige Ames and Robert Hanssen appear destined for a high ranking among twentieth century American traitors, and Kessler unwittingly wrote an essential book for anyone attempting to understand how hard the KGB worked to keep them hidden. do not expect great literature, though; it’s low-quality muckraking. The style mixes clumsy soap opera schmalz with wooden detective story descriptions. In describing Sergeant Lonetree’s entrapment by a female KGB agent, Kessler writes: “Her soft, gray eyes seemed to hold the promise of all the love he missed as a child.” (page 114) We also learn that the KGB is housed in “forbidding headquarters”. Kessler’s thesis is clear: “In the end, it was NSA that found the chilling evidence – the sinister devices in the CPU (the Communications Program Unit, or metal shack housing the embassy’s secure communications equipment) that showed that the KGB had penetrated the code room and had been able to read all of the emb
