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- Ruse: Undercover with FBI Counterintelligence
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
For nearly ten years beginning in 1993, Robert Eringer lived a clandestine life of intrigue, conducting a spectrum of covert operations for the FBI’s foreign counterintelligence division. His primary assignment: to lure American traitor Edward Lee Howard to capture. About to be arrested by the FBI for spying for Moscow, CIA officer Howard defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. But then he wanted to tell his story to the world. Utilizing cover as a book publishing consultant, the author gained Howard’s trust as his editor and confidant. As Eringer’s skillfully orchestrated ruse progressed, he pierced not only Howard’s inner circle of KGB cronies—including the KGB’s former chairman, making him an unwitting intelligence asset—but also Howard’s Cuban intelligence contact network in Havana. Only at the eleventh hour did a highly politicized Justice Department order Howard’s “extraordinary rendition” scrapped; he died mysteriously under ominous circumstances in Moscow in 2002. Nonetheless, the secrets Eringer gathered shed light on such sensitive espionage cases as the treachery of senior CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames and FBI traitor Robert Hanssen. In addition to his counter-espionage docket, Eringer undertook assignments for the FBI’s criminal division, including a ruse he devised to hasten the extradition from France of notorious convicted murderer Ira Einhorn. Ruse tells the unknown side of a significant piece of U.S. intelligence history, an unvarnished insider’s view of the FBI between the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part I. Hoodwinking Howard
- 1. Death in Moscow
- pp. 3-6
- 2. Writer, Editor...
- pp. 7-13
- 3. ...Publisher, Spy
- pp. 14-18
- 4. Prince of Ruse
- pp. 19-30
- 5. The Cheese Family
- pp. 31-35
- 6. Spook Writer
- pp. 36-45
- 7. Nyet-Nyuks
- pp. 46-51
- 8. Good to Go
- pp. 52-65
- 9. London Interlude
- pp. 66-67
- 10. Hiccup
- pp. 68-70
- 11. Swiss Sojourn
- pp. 71-77
- 12. Washington Cryptic
- pp. 78-81
- 13. A Lame Plan
- pp. 82-85
- 14. Spy City
- pp. 86-89
- 16. Doing Moscow with Ed and the Boys
- pp. 95-108
- Part II: II. Conning the Cubans
- 18. Cuban Interest
- pp. 121-124
- 19. Hanging in Havana
- pp. 125-138
- 20. Cuban Coversion
- pp. 139-143
- 21. Cuban Coversion II
- pp. 144-147
- 22. The Dinner Party
- pp. 148-151
- 23. Cloak and Corkscrew
- pp. 152-157
- 24. The Bedmates
- pp. 158-163
- 25. Get Smart
- pp. 164-166
- 26. Cuban Coversion III
- pp. 167-172
- Part III: Bamboozling Beelzebub
- 27. Rusing the Devil
- pp. 175-178
- 29. Fragments of Illusion
- pp. 186-189
- 30. Operation Beelzebub
- pp. 190-195
- 31. The Insect gets Sprayed
- pp. 196-201
- 32. Déjà vu All Over Again
- pp. 202-204
- 33. Make Some Arrests
- pp. 205-207
- 34. No Risk, No Gain
- pp. 208-209
- About the Author
- pp. 215-216
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597973175
Related ISBN(s)
9781597971898
MARC Record
OCLC
755573094
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No