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Spies: The Rise And Fall Of The Kgb In America
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Years lat...more
Hardcover, 704 pages
Published
May 26th 2009
by Yale University Press
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Incredibly comprehensive and dense. Not a light read. But, using a variety of pre-existing writings (eg, autobiographies, Venona decrypts, congressional hearings) and the new material brought to light by the access granted to Alexander Vassiliev to Russian archives, the book seeks to methodologically establish the penetration of American government and society by Russian spies. In some instances, the new evidence alleges to put to rest lingering questions about who was a spy, and who wasn't. Fas...more
This book probably deserves 5 stars for the information provided, but the writing had no flow at all; the whole middle portion was a pain to read. The longest chapter, regarding infiltration of the Manhattan Project, and the conclusion were both incredibly interesting. Also, while a lot, if not most, of the authors' accusations were sufficiently sourced there was quite a bit of innuendo surrounding supposed spies about whom information isn't as conclusive.
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wasn't my bag, mostly.
A curious Guardian article on Hemingway as a failed KGB agent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed-kgb-spy?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed-kgb-spy?
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