Freedom and crisis: An American history

Allen Weinstein

Random House, NY

Random House]

Freedom and Crisis: An American History

R. Jackson Wilson

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. Reconstructed from Moscow's messages to its operatives and reports from Soviet recruits in America, The Haunted Wood describes many previously unknown personal tales: struggles for control among contending Soviet operatives and American agents, love affairs, business ventures, defections, and plotted or actual murders. The authors also detail the remarkable range of classified government documents and information stolen for Soviet intelligence during the 1930s and the war years. Complementing its use of the KGB archives, The Haunted Wood incorporates, also for the first time, a number of the previously classified VENONA cables released in 1995-96 by the CIA and NSA. Among these thousands of translated intercepts sent by Soviet agents in the United States to the USSR during World War II were dozens that matched those found in the Moscow records. The highly placed Americans who assisted Soviet intelligence operatives during this period included: the passionate daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany an influential member of the U.S. Congress one of President Roosevelt's personal assistants key officials of the OSS, America's wartime spy agency a flamboyant Hollywood producer-director the head of the American Communist Party 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. The Haunted Wood's pages are filled with extraordinary and previously untold stories, including those of one war-time American spy ring whose head lived in a domestic ménage à trois with other agents, of Soviet involvement in a Hollywood music publishing company and possible major film investments, and of a station chief who proposed (with Moscow's agreement) funding U.S. journalists and congressional political campaigns. The authors show how defection at war's end by a single emotionally depressed agent, despondent since the death of her Soviet station-chief lover, provoked the swift and virtually complete shutdown of Moscow's intelligence operations in the United States--ironically, years before the FBI and congressional investigations began their decade-long pursuit of "Soviet agents," who, by then, had either returned to Moscow or left the U.S. government! With its new and uniquely documented information, The Haunted Wood offers the first fresh, realistic, and non-judgmental understanding of Soviet espionage in the United States during the Stalin era.

The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era

History

Alexander Vassiliev

Americas

The Story of America: Beginnings (American History Archives, The History Channel)

Dk Publishing*inc

When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers’s amazing story up to the present.

Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (Volume 567)

Hoover Institution Press

This book is heavily illustrated with over 230 rare archival photographs, documents and transcripts, including President Nixon’s resignation letter and pages from the Watergate Building burglar’s address book, JFK’s own Cuban Missile Crisis meeting notes, the Zapruda Camera, Bob Hope’s immigration record, Albert Einstein’s Declaration of Intention seeking US citizenship following his escape from Nazi Germany, early spy satellite images of the Kremlin, a telegram from Abraham Lincoln to General Grant instructing no let up in the Union campaign,D-Day newsreel footage,and major episodes in the US civil rights movement Published to celebrate the installation of a brand new exhibition at the newly renovated National Archives building in Washington, D.C., it is a wonderful pictorial record of great moments of American history captured in different times and places.

The Public Vaults Unlocked: Discovering American History in the National Archives

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

GILES

The Story of America

David Rubel

Dorling Kindersley, Limited

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