How a CIA agent spent 4,300 days infiltrated in AT&T's switching center in The Cold War скачать в хорошем качестве

How a CIA agent spent 4,300 days infiltrated in AT&T's switching center in The Cold War

In 1974, a quiet AT&T technician walks into a Houston switching center carrying a metal lunchbox and a perfectly ordinary work badge. His name is Silas Coen—at least, that’s what the paperwork says. In reality, he’s Caleb Vance, a CIA asset trained to do something no machine can do as well as a human brain: isolate a single voice inside a storm of noise. As the oil embargo tightens and the Cold War shifts into America’s commercial infrastructure, Vance is placed deep inside the nation’s long-distance telephone backbone. For twelve years, he lives in humming, windowless relay rooms, hiding taps in plain sight and turning the U.S. telecom grid into a covert listening post. But every victory has a cost. When Soviet counterintelligence begins to suspect a “ghost” in the switchboard, a routine corporate audit becomes a silent hunt. And as AT&T transitions from analog systems to early digital switching, Vance’s gift—his “Resonator” ability—starts to betray him. The voices don’t stop when he goes home. The static follows him into the dark. Eventually, the CIA doesn’t have to pull him out of the operation. The operation collapses inside his mind. THE SWITCHBOARD GHOST is a realistic, paranoid techno-noir espionage story about surveillance, obsolescence, and what happens when a human being is used like a tool—until there’s nothing left to extract but echoes.