Sergei Kostin,Eric Raynaud,Richard V. Allen,Catherine Cauvin-Higgins
1981. Ronald Reagan and FranÃ§ois Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrandâ€™s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call â€œone of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.â€,Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov, a promising technical student, joins the KGB to work as a spy. Following a couple of murky incidents, however, Vetrov is removed from the field and placed at a desk as an analyst. Soon, burdened by a troubled marriage and frustrated at a flailing career, Vetrov turns to alcohol. Desperate and needing redemption, he offers his services to the DST. Thus Agent Farewell is born. He uses his post within the KGB to steal and photocopy files of the USSRâ€™s plans for the Westâ€”all under Brezhnevâ€™s nose. ,Probing further into Vetrovâ€™s psychological profile than ever before, Kostin and Raynaud provide groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the fall of the Soviet Regime. 
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Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century