Red spy queen : a biography of Elizabeth Bentley / Kathryn S. Olmsted.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olmsted, Kathryn S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women communists--United States--Biography.

Women communists.

Communism--United States.

Communism.

Intelligence service--Soviet Union.

Intelligence service.

Espionage--Soviet Union.

Espionage.

Informers--United States--Biography.

Informers.

Bentley, Elizabeth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history.Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet Union for seven years. She met with dozens of highly placed American agents who worked for the Soviets, gathering their secrets and stuffing sensitive documents into her knitting bag. But her Soviet spymasters suspected her of disloyalty--and even began plotting to sil

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1.The Sad & Lonely Girl; 2. Vitally Important Work; 3. Clever Girl; 4. A Serious & Dangerous Burden; 5. Get Rid of Her; 6. The Blonde Spy Queen; 7. False Witness; 8. Somewhat Hysterical; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9798890876638

9780807862179

0807862177

OCLC:

476237253