Spies : The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America /

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...

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Main Authors: Haynes, John Earl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Klehr, Harvey (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Vassiliev, Alexander (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions for Nomenclature, Citations, Cover Names, Quotations, and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Alger Hiss
  • Chapter 2. Enormous
  • Chapter 3. The Journalist Spies
  • Chapter 4. Infiltration of the U.S. Government
  • Chapter 5. Infiltration of the Office of Strategic Services
  • Chapter 6. The XY Line
  • Chapter 7. American Couriers and Support Personnel
  • Chapter 8. Celebrities and Obsessions
  • Chapter 9. The KGB in America
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index