Brook-Shepard,
Gordon. "'Defectors': Misleading Tag -- Complex Issue."
In In the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer,
eds. Hayden B. Peake and Samuel Halpern, 133-136. Washington, DC: NIBC Press,
1994. Brook-Shepard,
Gordon. "'Defectors': Misleading Tag -- Complex Issue."
In In the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer,
eds. Hayden B. Peake and Samuel Halpern, 133-136. Washington, DC: NIBC Press,
1994.
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Brook-Shepard,
Gordon. Iron Maze: The Western Secret Services and the Bolsheviks.
London: Macmillan; 1998.
A retelling, with new material, of the Lockhart plot and associated events.
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Brook-Shepard,
Gordon. The Storm Birds: Soviet Post-War Defectors. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. Owl Books, 1990. [pb] DK268A1B76
According to Surveillant 1.3, Brook-Shepard presents "dramatic stories..., many based on previously unpublished materials and interviews." Petersen calls The Storm Birds a "useful summary of prominent cases," and notes that it includes a short annotated bibliography. Chambers sees the book as an "overview of several very important ... defectors" with "lots of useful insights."
For Cram, The Storm Birds "is not only an exciting read but is accurate in almost every respect." Brook-Shepard makes "judgments that are objective and fair." This is a "fascinating account of how and why so many senior Soviet intelligence officials defected and the impact they had on the West." Of the two most controversial cases, Golitsyn and Nosenko, "he has done a good job of sorting out the facts and arriving at fair judgments."
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Brook-Shepard,
Gordon. The Storm Petrels: The Flight of the First Soviet Defectors 1928-1938. London: Collins, 1977. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. New York: Ballantine, 1982. [pb]
Pforzheimer says that The Storm Petrels provides a "well written study of early Soviet defectors from 1928 until the beginning of World War II"; this is an "authoritative and important work."
For Constantinides, the book is "suspenseful and instructive," and "a rarity in English on the early history of Soviet defections. But it is still only an introduction to the subject and to the errors that occurred in handling these valuable sources of information."
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