Dr. Ernest H. Latham, Jr.

Book Title: Targeted as a Spy: The Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania

Book Description: Ernest H. Latham, Jr. was a career Foreign Service Officer. From 1983 to 1987, he was the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Bucharest. During his time in Romania, Dr. Latham was targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu and subjected to constant surveillance by his dreaded secret police, the Securitate. This book is a collection of surveillance reports that Dr. Latham obtained from the Romanian archives. It is essential reading for students of the Cold War as well as anyone interested in the mindset and methods of totalitarian regimes.

Publisher: Histria Books / Vita Histria

Book Genre: Twentieth-Century History / Diplomacy

Book Age Group: Adult