Stalin's Secret Agents

Stalin's Secret Agents

Author: M. Stanton Evans

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 143914768X

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A primary source examination of the infiltration of Stalin's Soviet intelligence network by members of the American government during World War II reveals the dictator's dubious partnerships with such top-level figures as Vice President Henry Wallace andchief advisor Harry Hopkins.


Smersh

Smersh

Author: Dr. Vadim Birstein

Publisher: Biteback Publishing

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1849546894

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SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were depicted in exotic duels with 007, rather than fostering the bleak oppression and terror they actually spread in the name of their dictator. Stalin drew a veil of secrecy over SMERSH's operations in 1946, but that did not stop him using it to terrify Red Army dissenters in Leningrad and Moscow, or to abduct and execute suspected spooks - often without cause - across mainland Europe. Formed to mop up Nazi spy rings at the end of the Second World War, SMERSH gained its name from a combination of the Russian words for 'Death to Spies'. Successive Communist governments suppressed traces of Stalin's political hit squad; now Vadim Birstein lays bare the surgical brutality with which it exerted its influence as part of the paranoid regime, both within the Soviet Union and in the wider world. SMERSH was the most mysterious and secret of organisations - this definitive and magisterial history finally reveals truths that lay buried for nearly fifty years.


Stalin's Secret Weapon

Stalin's Secret Weapon

Author: Anthony Rimmington

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0190928859

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A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.


A Death in Washington

A Death in Washington

Author: Gary Kern

Publisher: Enigma Books

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1929631251

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A new edition of the study explores the life of "master spy" Walter G. Krivitsky, who exposed dangers of the Stalin regime to the West and eventually ended up dead of "suicide" in Washington, D.C., a suspicious event that has raised questions about his last years as a spy. Reprint.


Stalin's Secret Police

Stalin's Secret Police

Author: Rupert Butler

Publisher: Amber Books Ltd

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1782743510

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Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.


The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

Author: Andrew Meier

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-08-10

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0393335356

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Filled with dramatic revelations, "The Lost Spy" may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation, exploring the life and death of Isaiah Oggins, one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. of illustrations.


Stalin's Romeo Spy

Stalin's Romeo Spy

Author: Emil Draitser

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0810126648

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Living a life that seems incredible even for a spy novel, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was a sailor, doctor, lawyer, and writer, fluent in many languages, whose success as a spy hinged on the fact that he was a charming, handsome, and very adept at seducing women. He stole military secrets from Germany and Italy and fed Stalin information from all over Europe, with his conquests including a French embassy employee, the wife of a British official, and a disfigured Gestapo officer. His story took an unexpected turn when at the height of Stalin's purges he was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to hard labor in the Gulag, where he risked further punishment by documenting how the regime he once served fully and unquestioningly had descended into a monstrous legacy of crimes against humanity.


An Impeccable Spy

An Impeccable Spy

Author: Owen Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1408857804

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARRÉ Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. In the years leading up to and during the Second World War, he became a fanatical communist – and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Combining charm with ruthless manipulation, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society. His intelligence proved pivotal to the Soviet counter-offensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war itself. Drawing on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives, this is a major biography of one of the greatest spies who ever lived.