The lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service / Andrew Meier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meier, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oggins, Isaiah.

Spies--Soviet Union--Biography.

Spies.

Americans.

Soviet Union.

Spies--United States--Biography.

United States.

Americans--Soviet Union--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-380) and index.

ISBN:

9780393060973

0393060977

OCLC:

181139413