The lost spy an American in Stalin's secret service
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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W.W. Norton & Co.,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. This book at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, journalist Meier traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 402 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-380) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393060973 (hardcover) 0393060977 (hardcover) |
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