By John Earl Haynes
This gorgeous publication, in response to KGB data that experience by no means come to gentle sooner than, presents the main whole account of Soviet espionage in the USA ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was once authorized distinctive entry to Stalin-era documents of Soviet intelligence operations opposed to the USA. Years later, dwelling in Britain, Vassiliev retrieved his huge notebooks of transcribed files from Moscow. With those notebooks John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have meticulously developed a brand new, occasionally stunning, historic account.
Along with common insights into espionage strategies and the reasons of usa citizens who spied for Stalin, Spies resolves particular, long-seething controversies. The publication confirms, between many different issues, that Alger Hiss cooperated with Soviet intelligence over an extended interval of years, that journalist I. F. Stone labored on behalf of the KGB within the Thirties, and that Robert Oppenheimer was once by no means recruited by way of Soviet intelligence. Spies additionally uncovers a number of American spies who have been by no means even lower than suspicion and satisfyingly identifies the final unaccounted for American nuclear spies. Vassiliev tells the tale of the notebooks and his personal remarkable lifestyles in a gripping creation to the amount.
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After two and a half years of misery in "the Forest" I found happiness in the desert. For a week I was the only Soviet journalist in the international press corps in Dhahran during Operation Desert Shield (got a T-shirt from there-a technician from an American TV crew was doing business on the side). I was going places and meeting people just because I wanted to, with no need to ask permission from KGB mandarins who would spend weeks weighing the pros and cons of every trip and interview. Then in August 1991 there was a coup attempt in Moscow against Gorbachev, and I got nervous.
Ironically, I was meeting people not many KGB intelligence officers could dream of meeting: Shimon Peres and Adel Sharon in Tel Aviv (I've got Sharon's book with his autograph), Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem (got his book too), and leaders of the Afghan mujahideen in Peshawar (they didn't write books). I went to talk to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar at his military camp in Afghanistan; I believe I was the first Soviet journalist who met Afghan mujahideen on their turf. I played ping pong with one of the nephews of King Fahd in Riyadh and went to see his camels.
One retired officer and historian didn't doubt the authenticity of the notebooks, but he did question the accuracy of a KGB report in one document that one of the daughters of Allen Dulles, later head of the CIA, had, like her father, worked for the OSS in World War II. "h We are confident that the unanimous judgment of these scholars and experts that the notebooks are an invaluable and reliable source of information on the KGB will be confirmed as this unique tool for comprehending Soviet espionage in the United States is used over the years.