Volume 44, Number 11 · June 26, 1997
The Imperfect Spy
By Timothy Garton Ash
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE:
Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster
by Markus Wolf
Times Books, 367 pp., $25.00
Die Troika (The Troika)
by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
Hildesheim, 256 pp.
In eigenem Auftrag (On My Own Orders)
by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
Munich: Schneekluth, 366 pp.
Geheimnisse der russischen Küche (Secrets of Russian Cuisine)
by Markus Wolf
Munich: Piper, 224 pp., DM 16,90
Markus Wolf: 'Ich bin kein Spion' (Markus Wolf: 'I Am Not a Spy')
by Irene Runge, by Uwe Stelbrink. (out of print)
Berlin: Dietz, 126 pp.
Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police
by Leslie Colitt
Addison-Wesley, 302 pp., $23.00
Wolfs West-Spione (Wolf's West-Spies)
by Peter Richter, by Klaus Rösler
Berlin: Elefanten Press, 190 pp., DM 24,90
Some six years ago, I heard 'the greatest spymaster of our century'—to quote Times Books' jacket hype—testify at the trial of one of his former subordinates in a Munich court. The judge started by asking 'the witness Wolf' to give his name, address, age—and then his profession. 'I work as an author,' said Wolf. A titter went round the courtroom, and even the judge could not restrain a smile.
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