Review of "The main enemy : the inside story of the CIA's final showdown with the KGB" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Read this ages ago. It was pretty good, but the only thing I really remember is a story about how the KGB and the CIA in Berlin used to show that they knew each other's secret drop sites by leaving each other beer. They even did this occasionally to say farewell when it was known that a station head or some other higher up in the enemy's service was leaving for another post. It sounded rather good natured - or at least, the impression I got was that the two services had a good deal of sympathy for one another because they alone knew the absurdity of the situation in which they found themselves.