Comments on: Comrade J by Pete Earley http://calitreview.com/309 Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:56:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Best Books of 2008 | California Literary Review http://calitreview.com/309/comment-page-1#comment-60464 Best Books of 2008 | California Literary Review Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:01:48 +0000 http://calitreview.com/2008/01/24/comrade-j-by-pete-earley/#comment-60464 [...] Comrade J by Pete Earley (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York) [...] [...] Comrade J by Pete Earley (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York) [...]

]]> By: Christopher John Ward http://calitreview.com/309/comment-page-1#comment-43613 Christopher John Ward Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:46:29 +0000 http://calitreview.com/2008/01/24/comrade-j-by-pete-earley/#comment-43613 As a former intelligence officer, I deplore the flippancy with which some people treat KGB/SVR officers who have risked their lives to provide the West with insight into the games played by the Soviet Union and now Russia. The West in general has been far too distracted by terrorism but the threat from the bear will always remain. Russia is already an authoritarian state and its intelligence services continued to spy on the West when our Masters thought we could all pack up and go home. That was called the peace dividend. Some peace: some dividend. As a former intelligence officer, I deplore the flippancy with which some people treat KGB/SVR officers who have risked their lives to provide the West with insight into the games played by the Soviet Union and now Russia. The West in general has been far too distracted by terrorism but the threat from the bear will always remain.

Russia is already an authoritarian state and its intelligence services continued to spy on the West when our Masters thought we could all pack up and go home. That was called the peace dividend. Some peace: some dividend.

]]> By: gerald Aronson http://calitreview.com/309/comment-page-1#comment-9774 gerald Aronson Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:27:11 +0000 http://calitreview.com/2008/01/24/comrade-j-by-pete-earley/#comment-9774 Kessler has a keen eye for hypocrisy, practiced blindness, and other finely honed species of denial. Nothing he writes fails to surprise even when restraint holds him back from shocking us loose from our customary moorings. Prize him, not for the fear he could inspire by his revelations, but for the startle left in his wake. Many thanks for publishing this piece. Kessler has a keen eye for hypocrisy, practiced blindness, and other finely honed species of denial. Nothing he writes fails to surprise even when restraint holds him back from shocking us loose from our customary moorings. Prize him, not for the fear he could inspire by his revelations, but for the startle left in his wake. Many thanks for publishing this piece.

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