More spies have been named in the last ten
years than ever before in American history. And
they have inflicted more damage on the nation s
defenses than even the A-bomb spies of the
1940s. Merchants of Treason, by the authors of the
highly acclaimed biography of Admiral Hyman
Rickover, will be hailed as the first comprehen-
sive analysis of how and why we are Iosing so
badly in the back-alley war of counter-espionage.
In the not-so-distant past, people betrayed
their country for reasons of ideology. But the days
of Philby, Burgess, Madean, and the Rosenbergs
are over. Now our nation s most secret materials
are being sold at an espionage bazaar where
the Soviets are the most frequent and generous
buyers. It is the conviction of Allen and Polmar,
meticulously documented and passionately ar-
gued, that the betrayal by Walker, Whitworth,
Pelton, PolIard, and the other modern spies is not
a rare disease but a symptom of a veritable
plague that has descended upon us.
We go behind the headlines as the authors
explore the following questions:
-Did the raid to free our American hostages in
lran fail because of fears that the Soviets were
able to penetrate our cryptographic system?
-How many U.S. soldiers, sailors, and marines
have escaped public attention in spy cases swept
under the rug by bureaucrats in the Pentagon and
the Department of Justice?
-Did U.S. counter-espionage agents know that
whitworth was stealing code secrets years be-
fore he was arrested?
-Has the Soviet Union been able to place moles
within the U.S. government, as they have in Bri-
tain and other Western nations?
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