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Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley

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When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history.

Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet Union for seven years. She met with dozens of highly
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published October 7th 2002 by University of North Carolina Press
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Richard Bentley
Aug 11, 2011 rated it it was amazing
I really enjoyed the book. I read it because she was my 5th cousin and I enjoy tracing my family tree. As well Clever Girl is another book about her, which is another one I liked. Elizabeth wrote a book about her life, which I haven't read yet. All in all she had an intresting life and someone i'd like to have meet and talked with.

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