Why did the Author leave out tha Martha Dodd was a Soviet Spy?

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I couldn't finish this book on CD once I read the real story on line. I read that it might be made into a movie.

[Mireille]

Reading this book now, wondering how a biography on Martha Dodd wasn't been written, unless there is one published that I did not locate?

[Patricia]

Brendan wrote: "twenty years ago, KGB briefly opened their archives, and there was all kinds of juicy Martha Dodd material there. There is also some good stuff in the FBI archives that's online. They were only wat..."

Brendan wrote: "I think this is a great book, I'm just perplexed that the Author, kinda can't bring himself to state a well-known, historically documented fact: That Martha Dodd was a Soviet Spy. She took all the ..."

Martha's loose and privileged attitude was one of the the main subjects of this story, I think. Just like the US and FDR when they ignored Hitler for so long. Martha and her family (maybe the exception was her father that warned of Hitler) had a distaste for jews, and a look away attitude of the suffering in Berlin.
I was perplexed as well to find out she was a spy. Hardly any talk in the book at all about it. But, apparently, Larson's take (and hisproof) was that she HARDLY was anything important to the Russians. I think he wanted to keep the story flowing without getting into her spy activities. I truly believe she was a spy only in the "social circles" realm. She Got to go to a lot of fancy salons and parties. Pretty sad story. And FDR goes down a few thrones in my head after really knowing his attitude on keeping us out of getting involved. He knew. He turned his head too.

[Arthur]

I got the idea that she was a spy, but not much was said about it because it was not important to what Larson was writing about. That really was the growth of Hitler’s power and what was going on in the US as a result. She did not seem to be an important spy as her Russian boy friend could not get their marriage approved. Many people were enthralled by Russian during this time; just as many folks are enthralled by Trump today. Humans have been subject to being radicalized for as long as we have been around.
My father’s parents were both born in Germany but immigrated to the US in the 2890s. They took an extended visit back to Germany in 1933 and from their experience the depression was even worst in Germany than it was here. This I thought was not addressed by Larson except tangentially.