The Venona secrets : exposing Soviet espionage and America's traitors / Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romerstein, Herbert.

Contributor:

Breindel, Eric, 1955-1998.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Signal Security Agency.

Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Espionage, Soviet--United States--History.

Espionage, Soviet.

International relations.

History.

Cryptography.

United States.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--History.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie--History.

United States. Signal Security Agency--History.

Cryptography--United States--History--20th century.

World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States--History.

United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 608 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, [2000]

Summary:

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.

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.

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 treason infected Washington and Soviet agents were shielded, either wittingly or unwittingly, by our very own government officials.

Contents:

Chapter 1 What Was Venona? 3

Chapter 2 An "Agent of Influence" Makes History 29

Chapter 3 The Making of an Apparat 55

Chapter 4 Whittaker Chambers's Spy Ring 95

Chapter 5 The Elizabeth Bentley Spy Rings 143

Chapter 6 Atomic Espionage 191

Chapter 7 Atomic Espionage

The Rosenberg Case 231

Chapter 8 Atomic Espionage

California Phase 255

Chapter 9 Target: OSS 283

Chapter 10 Hunting Down "Polecats" 309

Chapter 11 The Jack Soble/Robert Soblen Ring 355

Chapter 12 "Polecats" and "Rats": Spying on Dissidents and Jews 387

Chapter 13 Target: Journalists 429

Appendix A The Documents 461

Appendix B The Spies 507.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-574) and index.

ISBN:

0895262754

OCLC:

44703360