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The First Counterspy is the pulsequickening and traumatic story of spy counterspy and an American family unwittingly caught in its web Until this case the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent The first two were Larry Haas a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation and Leona Franey head librarian at Bells technical library The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII and illegally as the secret head of a wideranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry
The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and later the consequences of Schevchenkos deadly threat of vengeance against Haas the counterspy who betrayed him The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko tormented Larry Haas killed his wife and subjected his daughter Kay the coauthor of this book to decades of nearly fatal harassment
And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs spy intrigue against the backdrop of the home front during World War II
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