
A spy's wife: the Moscow memoirs of a Canadian who witnessed the end of the Cold War
Biographies, Femmes (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Journalist Cowan and her husband lived and traveled in the former Soviet Union, in the midst of the coup against Gorbachev in 1991 and the attempted coup against Yeltsin in 1993. But before leaving for Moscow, she and her husband… were trained by the Canadian government to learn how to gather intelligence. Cowan offers insights into spycraft in the nineties as well as anecdotes about the role of an 'official wife' of a Canadian military attaché. 2006.