This Book Explains How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB

The Moscow Rules looks at how CIA officers evaded the suffocating security environment during the Soviet era. Courtesy of PublicAffairs

Greg Myre, NPR: 'Moscow Rules': How The CIA Operated Under The Watchful Eye Of The KGB

As a young government employee in 1975, Marti Peterson was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. She loved the social scene and it earned her a nickname.

"I was known as 'Party Marti' because I was out socializing with the Marine guards, with younger secretaries, the single, social life," Peterson said. "We did drink our share of Carlsberg beer."

Peterson was actually with the CIA — the first female officer sent to Moscow. Her "cover" was to be a fun-loving clerical worker, someone Soviet security could safely ignore as it obsessively tracked actual and suspected CIA officers.

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