Author

Publication

2000 - HarperCollins, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Dr Julius Slavenas Collection

Description

This book is based on the only complete set of decrypts held in Britain outside Whitehall and is supplemented by interviews with most of the principal players in the VENONA drama (NSA, GCHQ, FBI and MI5 officers). In 1996 the White House authorised the release of the complete VENONA collection, which proves that the FBI and CIA had accumulated compelling evidence against the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Klaus Fuchs, Donald Maclean and other Soviet spies. To protect the source, VENONA was never mentioned in any trial. Study of the VENONA material reveals that there are nearly 300 unidentified Soviet agents in Britain and America, plus a smaller number of people (like the nuclear physicist Dr Theodore Hall) whose activities are described in compromising detail.

Subjects

Topics

SpiesSourcesHistoryCold WarCryptographySoviet EspionageEspionage, Soviet -- History -- Sources

Genres

  • Sources

Other Editions

  • Venona: the greatest secret of the Cold WarHarperCollins2000-01-01

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