Written like a gripping spy novel, The Venona Secrets takes on some of the most hallowed figures of the American left in the first half of this century, documenting their involvement in spying for the Soviet Union. Eric Breindel and Herbert Romerstein provide incontrovertible proof that there was widespread Soviet infiltration in the highest reaches of the U.S. government, including the White House, the State and Treasury Departments, and the project to build the atomic bomb. The authors also provide evidence of similar infiltration of American labor unions and other organizations, and of attempts to target Jewish groups and influential journalists.The authors use the Venona Papers (Venona was the code name given to an extensive program to read intercepted communications between Moscow and its intelligence stations in the West), along with other documents long kept secret by the Soviet and the West, to provide new insight into the astounding scope of Moscow's espionage apparatus in the U.S.Taking advantage of the vast array of newly available information on this subject, Breindel and Romerstein get at the heart of why so many Americans were not just "liberals in a hurry", but willing spies on behalf of a foreign government against their own country.

Venona Secrets: The Soviet Union's World War II Espionage Campaign Against the United States and How America Fought Back, a Story of Espionage, Counterespionage and

History

Breindel, Eric

Military

Regnery Publishing, Inc.

The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995 the Venona documents secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America s atomic-age secrets.

The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

Americas

Regnery History

The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets. Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that reached from Harry Hopkins in Franklin Roosevelt s White House to Alger Hiss in the State Department to Harry Dexter White in the Treasury. More than that, The Venona Secrets exposes: • Information that links Albert Einstein to Soviet intelligence and conclusive evidence showing that J. Robert Oppenheimer gave Moscow our atomic secrets. • How Soviet espionage reached its height when the United States and the Soviet Union were supposedly allies in World War II. • The previously unsuspected vast network of Soviet spies in America. • How the Venona documents confirm the controversial revelations made in the 1940s by former Soviet agents Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. • The role of the American Communist Party in supporting and directing Soviet agents. • How Stalin s paranoia had him target Jews (code-named Rats ) and Trotskyites even after Trotsky’s death. • How the Soviets penetrated America’s own intelligence services. The Venona Secrets is a masterful compendium of spy versus spy that puts the Venona transcripts in context with secret FBI reports, congressional investigations, and documents recently uncovered in the former Soviet archives. Romerstein and Breindel cast a spotlight on one of the most shadowy episodes in recent American history - a past when by our very own government officials, whether wittingly or unwittingly, shielded treason infected Washington and Soviet agents.

The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in America (Cold War Classics)

Romerstein, Herbert

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