Payne, Ronald and Dobson, Christopher. Who's Who in Espionage. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1984. 234 pages.

This is an American edition of a book that was first published in Britain by Harrap Ltd. under the title "The Dictionary of Espionage." Payne and Dobson have covered espionage for the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Telegraph, and have co-authored other books, including "The Carlos Complex" and "The Falklands Conflict."

The book consists of alphabetical biographies of over 200 famous names in espionage, each varying in length from two paragraphs to a page or more. The scope is broadly international, and the time frame is the Cold War period through 1982. Thus, in the first pages we see Rudolph Abel (a Russian spy), one page, Nahum Admoni (Mossad head in 1982), a half page, Mehmet Agca (who shot the Pope), a half page, and Philip Agee, slightly more than one page. High-level desk officers of various intelligence services are as likely to appear as those who have been caught and shot, or defectors who were briefly in the news and faded into obscurity. The descriptions are concise, well-written, and well-informed. The back of the book has 24 pages that describe the intelligence services of 17 countries.
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