Front cover split from cover page - see photo Oleg Vladimirovich Penʹkovskiĭ Doubleday, 1965 - Espionage, Russian - 397 pages This book is about a man from Russia who passed mostly economic and technical information to the United States and Great Britain during the Cold War acting out of the deep conviction that he was serving the cause of human progress. However, the information that he passed was Top-secret and when caught he was sentanced to death by firing squad.