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The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America
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- ISBN
- 9780679457244
- Book Title
- Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- True Crime, History, Political Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 27.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 402 Pages
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Based upon previously secret KGB records, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States throughout the 1930s, World War II, and the early Cold War. Historian Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB agent-turned-journalist, were provided unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that documented the KGB's success in acquiring America's most valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic secrets.The Haunted Woodnarrates the triumphs and failures of Soviet operatives and their American agents during the 1930s and 1940s, describing as well the compelling human dramas involved. Reconstructed from Moscow's messages to its operatives and reports from Soviet recruits in America, The Haunted Wood describes many previously unknown personal tales: struggles for control among contending Soviet operatives and American agents, love affairs, business ventures, defections, and plotted or actual murders. The authors also detail the remarkable range of classified government documents and information stolen for Soviet intelligence during the 1930s and the war years. Complementing its use of the KGB archives, The Haunted Wood incorporates, also for the first time, a number of the previously classified VENONA cables released in 1995-96 by the CIA and NSA. Among these thousands of translated intercepts sent by Soviet agents in the United States to the USSR during World War II were dozens that matched those found in the Moscow records. The highly placed Americans who assisted Soviet intelligence operatives during this period included: the passionate daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany an influential member of the U.S. Congress one of President Roosevelt's personal assistants key officials of the OSS, America's wartime spy agency a flamboyant Hollywood producer-director the head of the American Communist Party Several chapters provide major new accounts from Moscow's own record of its relations with Alger Hiss and atomic spies Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, and Julius Rosenberg, among others, along with fresh information on Soviet espionage in the United States by British agents for the Kremlin--Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Harold "Kim" Philby. The Haunted Wood's pages are filled with extraordinary and previously untold stories, including those of one war-time American spy ring whose head lived in a domestic ménage à trois with other agents, of Soviet involvement in a Hollywood music publishing company and possible major film investments, and of a station chief who proposed (with Moscow's agreement) funding U.S. journalists and congressional political campaigns. The authors show how defection at war's end by a single emotionally depressed agent, despondent since the death of her Soviet station-chief lover, provoked the swift and virtually complete shutdown of Moscow's intelligence operations in the United States--ironically, years before the FBI and congressional investigations began their decade-long pursuit of "Soviet agents," who, by then, had either returned to Moscow or left the U.S. government! With its new and uniquely documented information, The Haunted Wood offers the first fresh, realistic, and non-judgmental und
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679457240
ISBN-13
9780679457244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
666903
Product Key Features
Book Title
Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage
Publication Year
1998
Genre
True Crime, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
402 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
27.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ub271.R9w45 1999
Reviews
Praise for Allen Weinstein'sPerjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case "Devastatingly complete and detailed . . . an impressively unemotional blockbuster of fact." --Alfred Kazin, Esquire "So far as any one book can dispel a large historical mystery, this book does it, magnificently." --Garry Wills,The New York Review of Books "The most exciting piece of history in recent memory." --William F. Buckley "The most objective and convincing account we have of the most dramatic court case of the century." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-011801
Dewey Decimal
327.1247073
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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