Bøker av John W Whiteside

Laurie Baier was an intelligent, driven woman who finished Duke University in two and one-half years, graduating Magna Cum Laude. An accomplished musician and gifted song writer, her amazing soprano voice complimented her talent. Her quest was to make it big in the entertainment business. A blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty, she had everything going for her. Never shy about a new adventure, she enjoyed life in co-op housing with like souls who preferred a hippie lifestyle. Life should have been a joy for her. But something went terribly wrong. She struggled in the music business and in her complicated love life. She kept reaching for something she was unable to grasp. not with her hands but with her heart. In April 1977 she said goodbye and took her journey, escaping the fears surrounding her. One month later her abandoned car was found near Matagami, in the wilds of sub-arctic Canada. Last seen alive on a rural mining road standing by her Volkswagen beetle, subsequent searches for her by multiple law enforcement organizations were badly delayed by miscommunication and misinformation. Family members were left in the dark for almost six months of the fact that she had actually been observed in Quebec Province, Canada. By the time any concentrated investigation was conducted, Laurie had long since vanished. What happened to Laurie Baier has left family, friends and law enforcement experts stymied to this day. Investigation has identified the possibility of some emotional turmoil in her life which may have played a part in her disappearance. That, coupled with revelations in the Canadian press that the RCMP has a dismal record in working missing person cases suggests the possibility that little effort has been put on her case. The fact that there are some 4,500 missing and murdered indigenous girls and women in Canada whose cases have never been solved leads one to question why. Missing in Matagami will bring Laurie and her family to life and help the reader try to better understand her. All collected evidence and existing clues about what she may have done are provided to the reader as a true mystery to be solved. Laurie's family still clings to hope that one of the readers of this story may be able to provide some piece of valuable information that will lead to a glorious reunion with her at last!

"Fool's Mate" tells the true stories of two traitors working different sides of the Cold War. One is an arrogant, lonely U.S. Army soldier serving in the highly secretive National Security Agency. The other is an ambitious KGB officer with access to the U.S.S.R.'s most sensitive documents. Both betray their countries, but their fates and motivations are very different.At the height of the Cold War in September 1965, disgruntled U.S. soldier Robert Stephan Lipka walked boldly into the U.S.S.R. embassy in Washington, DC. Inside, he negotiated the sale of highly sensitive National Security Agency documents. The price he demanded for his treason? A mere four hundred dollars.The Soviets could not believe their luck. For the next two years, Lipka delivered a steady stream of important information on U.S. security, before attempting to get out of the spy game as his military enlistment period expired. The KGB, however, continued their interest in Lipka for several years, eventually dispatching deep-cover Soviet illegals to make re-contact.As Lipka exited the scene, KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin planted the seeds of his own treason, which bore unexpected fruit decades later. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union, Mitrokhin fledto the West, offering a treasure trove of archived KGB files in return for protection.Hidden within those documents was incriminating evidence against Lipka, who was then living a quiet life in the Amish suburbs of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After a lengthy surveillance and sting operation, Lipka was convicted in 1997. Thirty-two years after first committing treason, he was finally brought to justice-his conviction ending the longest-running open espionagecase in U.S. history. With Lipka's adamant refusal to cooperate with authorities, it remains unclear just how much American blood he traded for small sums of cash."Fool's Mate" reconstructs the Lipka investigation through the eyes of author John Whiteside, the FBI Special Agent who led the case from start to finish, telling a story as relevant today as it was in 1965. With the arrest of ten Russian illegals in 2010 and the 2013 release of classified National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden, "Fool's Mate" reminds us just how vulnerable national security is to both foreign intelligence services and men like Lipka, willing to sell out their country from within.