The Recruitment

About the Book

In the CIA Station in Beirut, Lebanon, the Chief of the Station Soviet Operations section, selects a KGB officer as a recruitment target, and orders the officers in his section to begin gathering the necessary assessment information to determine the new target’s vulnerability to a CIA recruitment approach. The Station surveillance team learns the identities of the target’s friends and associates, and his daily routines. Follow the CIA exploitation of the Russian target’s relationship with family and colleagues, and the innermost thoughts, concerns and fears he experiences in his daily life, which will ultimately put him face to face with opportunities for a bright new career, and relationship with his family, or arrest, humiliation and death.

About the Author

The author, Ronald Estes, served 25 years as an Operation’s Officer in the CIA Clandestine Service. He engaged in operations against KGB targets like the one portrayed in this book, and served as a supervisor in selecting, planning and recruiting penetrations in the Soviet KGB. He also directed such activities on a continent wide basis