Contributions

  • Vassiliev, Alexander. - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Random House, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

100,500 words, Guess

Page Count

402 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL352319M
  • ISBN-100679457240
  • OCLC Control Number39051089
  • Library of Congress Control Number98011801
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  • LibraryThing400919

Classifications

  • DDC327.1247073
  • LCCUB271.R9 W45 1999

Description

Based upon Previously Secret KGB records, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States throughout the 1930s, World War II, and the early Cold War. Historian Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB agent-turned-journalist, were provided unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that documented the KGB's success in acquiring America's most valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic secrets. The Haunted Wood narrates the triumphs and failures of Soviet operatives and their American agents during the 1930s and 1940s, describing as well the compelling human dramas involved. Several chapters provide major new accounts from Moscow's own record of its relations with Alger Hiss and atomic spies Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, and Julius Rosenberg, among others, along with fresh information on Soviet espionage in the United States by British agents for the Kremlin - Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Harold "Kim" Philby.

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Other Editions

  • The haunted wood: Soviet espionage in America--the Stalin eraRandom House1999-01-01

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