Targeted as a Spy - Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania

This book is a collection of the surveillance reports that reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected in the Communist bloc. More importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that produced these materials.

About the author

Ernest H. Latham, Jr. is an American historian specialized on modern Romania. After service as an officer in the U. S. Coast Guard, he entered the American Foreign Service. His early assignments were in the Middle East but thereafter serving in Central and Eastern Europe, including the years 1983-7 in Bucharest, Romania, as the American cultural attaché. After retiring in 1993 he returned to Romania as a Fulbright professor for two years in 2000. His doctorate is from the University of Bucharest.

Summary

This book is a collection of the surveillance reports that reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected in the Communist bloc. More importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that produced these materials.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest H. Latham Jr., Ernest Latham, Ernest H. Latham Jr.
• Assisted by: Dennis Deletant (Editor), Vadim Guzun (Editor)
• Publisher: Histria LLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781592110636
• ISBN: 978-1-59211-063-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 160 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 506 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, History - Military / War