SPIES THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KGB IN AMERICA HAYNES J.E. KLEHR H. VASSILIEV A. Księgarnia

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 the United States. Years later, living in Britain, Vassiliev retrieved his extensive notebooks of transcribed documents from Moscow. With these notebooks John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have meticulously constructed a new, sometimes shocking, historical account.

Along with general insights into espionage tactics and the motives of Americans who spied for Stalin, Spies resolves specific, long-seething controversies. The book confirms, among many other things, that Alger Hiss cooperated with Soviet intelligence over a long period of years, that journalist I. F. Stone worked on behalf of the KGB in the 1930s, and that Robert Oppenheimer was never recruited by Soviet intelligence. Spies also uncovers numerous American spies who were never even under suspicion and satisfyingly identifies the last unaccounted for American nuclear spies. Vassiliev tells the story of the notebooks and his own extraordinary life in a gripping introduction to the volume.

Preface by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xxi
Conventions for Nomenclature, Citations, Quotations, Cover Names, and Transliteration....................xxiii
Introduction by Alexander Vassiliev: "How I Came to Write My Notebooks, Discover Alger Hiss, and Lose to His Lawyer....................xxvii
Chapter 1: Alger Hiss: Case Closed....................1
Chapter 2: Enormous: The KGB Attack on the Anglo-American Atomic Project....................33
Chapter 3: The Journalist Spies....................145
Chapter 4: Infiltration of the U.S. Government....................195
Chapter 5: Infiltration of the Office of Strategic Services....................293
Chapter 6: The XY Line: Technical, Scientific, and Industrial Espionage....................331
Chapter 7: American Couriers and Support Personnel....................393
Chapter 8: Celebrities and Obsessions....................431
Chapter 9: The KGB in America: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Structural Problems....................483
Conclusion....................541
Notes....................549
Index....................638

704 pages,Hardcover

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SPIES THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KGB IN AMERICA

HAYNES J.E. KLEHR H. VASSILIEV A.

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