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Torpedoed : an American businessman's true story of secrets, betrayal, imprisonment in Russia, and the battle to set him free

Title
Torpedoed : an American businessman's true story of secrets, betrayal, imprisonment in Russia, and the battle to set him free / Edmond D. Pope, and Tom Shachtman.
Author
Pope, Edmond D., 1946-
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., ©2001.

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Additional Authors
Shachtman, Tom, 1942-
Description
263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The author describes his role in a joint CIA and Canadian Secret Service operation to steal plans for a Russian submarine torpedo and his arrest, trial, conviction, and 253-day imprisonment for espionage.
Subject
  • Pope, Edmond D., 1946-
  • Prisoners > Russia (Federation) > Biography
  • Businessmen > United States > Biography
  • Imprisonment > Russia (Federation)
  • Espionage, American > Russia (Federation)
  • Businessmen
  • Espionage, American
  • Imprisonment
  • Prisoners
  • Geschäftsmann
  • Spionage
  • Politischer Gefangener
  • Freilassung
  • Russia (Federation)
  • United States
  • Russland
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Four Days of Hell -- Behind the Green Door -- Interrogation and Incarceration -- The Reasons Behind My Arrest -- Explosives, Exclusives, and Late-Night Visitors -- Incidents in Limbo -- August Is Very Hot -- Life As a Spider -- No Themis in This Court -- Breaking the Parasha -- Waiting for Putin -- Release, Recovery, Reconstruction.
ISBN
  • 0316348732
  • 9780316348737
LCCN
2001038594
OCLC
  • ocm47746482
  • 47746482
  • SCSB-1232326
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library