BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Liar’ reveals spy trip | Books

“The Liar: The CIA Double Agent Who Became the Last Honest Man of the Cold War” by Benjamin Cunningham, (Public Affairs Books: New York), $29.00 hardcover.

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