The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era (Modern Library Paperbacks) Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 193
| TITLE | : | The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era (Modern Library Paperbacks) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.63 (812 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0375755365 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 448 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2000-03-14 |
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Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 1930s through the early cold war.
Editorial : The Haunted Wood fills in a valuable part of cold war history: the Soviet Union's attempts to spy on the United States from the time of FDR's New Deal, through the Second World War, and into the 1950s. Allen Weinstein (author of a highly regarded history of the Hiss-Chambers case, Perjury) and Alexander Vassiliev (a KGB agent turned journalist) show that among the Americans caught in the Soviet orbit were many top government officials, including a Congressman from New York and a close advisor to President Roosevelt, as well as an American ambassador's daughter. Most of these early spies were leftists driven by ideology--as opposed to money, which seems to have motivated many of the later cold war traitors, such as Aldrich Ames. (The Congressman, interestingly, is an exception--he demanded so much compensation that the Soviets gave him the code name "Crook.") The greatest wi
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