The First Counterspy

Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI's Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole

The First Counterspy
Kay Haas, Walter W Pickut
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 392pg
1 Jul 2022 US
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9781493061563
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The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening 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 Bell' s 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 wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry. The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko' s 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 co-author 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.
Tantalizing. Dramatic. Espionage fans. . . will savor the wild ride. -Publishers Weekly
Kay Haas is Larry Haas' s elder daughter. Her early years were fraught with disruptions caused by her father' s work and her mother' s death at the hands of Soviet agents. Kay later traveled widely and became a renowned and commercially successful stained-glass artist creating entire suites of church windows, elegant chandeliers, and decorative and artistic displays. She has raised five children over a span of twenty-five years, and at the age of 80 is married to her third husband, a retired pastor. She lives in Bemus Poiint, NY. Walter Pickut is a freelance writer and the founding editor (now contributing editor) of the Jamestown Gazette, a Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania regional weekly newspaper, now entering its tenth year of publication. He lives in Jamestown, NY.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781493061563
Published: 1 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 392

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