Diplomat, dissident, spook : a Canadian diplomat's chronicles through the Cold War and beyond
For his first posting, a fresh-faced Canadian diplomat and his young family are dispatched straight into the belly of the beast: the USSR in full-on Cold War mode. Next stop, Havana - with an additional assignment: clandestine intelligence gathering for the CIA. In this timely memoir, the late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the...