{"product_id":"9780679457244","title":"Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America -- The Stalin Era","description":" \u003cbr\u003eBased 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Wood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eReconstructed 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.\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eComplementing 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 theMoscow records.\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eThe highly placed Americans who assisted Soviet intelligence operatives during this period included:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul type=\"DISC\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003e  the passionate daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  an influential member of the U.S. Congress\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  one of President Roosevelt's personal assistants\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  key officials of the OSS, America's wartime spy agency\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  a flamboyant Hollywood producer-director\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e  the head of the American Communist Party\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eThe 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!\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027868762352,"sku":"9780679457244","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679457244_p0.gif?v=1763606096","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679457244","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}