An Agent in Place Author:Thomas Whiteside AN AGENT IN PLACE offers a psychological portrait of a double agent, a description unequaled in spy fiction, a sense of what it is like to serve the two most powerful nations on earth--at the same time ... — Blond, handsome, and charming, Colonel Stig Wennerstrom served as Swedish Air Attache in Moscow and Washington. Exploiting his good standing... more » with all three nations, he was able for more than fifteen years to pass secret NATO strategies to the Soviets and to reveal so much about Swedish defense systems as to seriously compromise his own nation.
This exciting and highly readable account details Wennerstrom's role in a number of international incidents, including the Cuban missile criss, amid his belief that he was promoting world peace. When the growing suspicions of hte Swedish internal security agency were confirmed by Wennerstrom's observant housemaid, he was arrested and confessed to his entire career. Sentenced to life imprisonment under solitary confinement in 1964, he is a great reader of spy thrillers.« less