George H.W. Bush loved the CIA. It was “part of my heartbeat,” he once said. He was the only president who ever ran the agency, and the last president who truly believed in its Cold War code ...

Between 1972 and 1981, he provided the CIA with thousands of pages of Soviet intelligence ... From The Eastern West on Colonel Kukliński and espionage during the Cold War. It seemed like a routine ...

“The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post ...

Mr. Gerber had little interest in the CIA’s often disaster-prone early covert actions, devoting his career instead to honing espionage tradecraft and tactics on the Cold War’s front lines ...