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The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets Hardcover – January 1, 2018
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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Collins
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2018
- Dimensions6.26 x 1.61 x 9.45 inches
- ISBN-100008238111
- ISBN-13978-0008238117
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- Publisher : William Collins (January 1, 2018)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0008238111
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008238117
- Item Weight : 1.59 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.26 x 1.61 x 9.45 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,710,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Svetlana Lokhova is a By-Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She holds an MPhil and BA (Hons) in History from University of Cambridge.
Svetlana's first book, 'The Spy Who Changed History' is an "ASTONISHING BOOK ABOUT ASTONISHING PEOPLE". "The story of how one of America’s top universities “gave” Soviet spies the means to build a superpower ...'beggars belief'. The book gained a 5-star review by the Daily Telegraph.
The book is 'SUPERBLY RESEARCHED" and "GROUNDBREAKING". The "most remarkable achievement is to shift our perception of the centre of 20th-century espionage from Cambridge, England, to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Svetlana’s interest in espionage history began whilst studying History at Cambridge University. Her Master's dissertation remains the definitive account of the founder of the Soviet intelligence service, Felix Dzerzhinsky.
She is responsible for a number of the most important archival discoveries made in recent years. Her revelations have generated substantial press coverage across the world.
Svetlana identified the Cambridge ‘Sixth Man’ Cedric Belfrage featured on the BBC Television News and Radio. The story of Britain’s ‘Hollywood Spy’ was told on a specially commissioned programme.
From her work on the ‘Mitrokhin Archive’, she found the identity of ‘MIKE’, a US Cold War KGB recruit, and revealed the KGB’s plans to recruit President Nixon’s chief physician.
She has spoken about the Mitrokhin archive on US Public Service Radio, Radio Free Europe, the BBC and ABC (Australia).
She was until recently a Fellow of the Cambridge [UK] Security Initiative jointly chaired by the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, and Professor Christopher Andrew, former Official Historian of the MI5.
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First off this is an information rich story because the author has gone beyond due diligence and provide her readers w/all kinds of pertinent historical information. Just one example of the poison gas started in WW1/The inventors Lewis and Nieuwland believed in gas warfare. They thought the use of poison gas would make wars more humane by shortening them and avoiding the suffering of civilians. The author gives astounding details like when the Soviet Union began producing massive quantities of material, eventually disposing of approximately twenty thousand tons of it in the Artic Ocean during the late 1940s and '50s. Of course, we know BP Oil did that later of the coast of Louisiana in that terrible 2010 using poison to clean-up that oil spill.
This book centers on technocrat Stanislav Shumovsky who led a party of 75 Soviet spies into the U.S. in 1931 to enroll in universities majoring in science and/or engineering. No doubt, this was and is common method being used even today. Also what was interesting was that the FBI didn't catch on for decades; just like in organized crime. in fact, the Soviet Union very survival depended upon these spies to use the manufacturing to secure a strong industrialized war footing during WW11.
The author also uses her detailed research to draw significant character descriptions that bring the players into sharper focus in both in their background, and in terms of their overall significance. The author shows that the Soviet Union spent significant sums of money, energy, and time in their spy apparatus.
Not mentioned is that when the war was over; the U.S. made a deal with the Nazis to keep the German spy apparatus in-place with Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen at the helm under U.S supervision & direction.
A great book that reveals a relatively unknown Soviet spy operation.
It starts in 1931, with the arrival of picked delegation of Russian students, engineers and scientists, to study at MIT and other universities. All are covert agents, sent to the States to pick up information in a host of technical field and help Russia overcome its deficiency in the design and manufacture of airplanes and other weapons of modern mass war. One of the excellences of Lokhova’s account, which draws on formerly unavailable Soviet sources, is that, a Russian herself, she understands, even sympathizes, with Russia’s need for this information. As the Thirties ramped up, Stalin rightly feared attack on both edges of his sprawling empire: from Germany into the Ukraine in the West, Japan in the Far East. A country that had difficulty producing even predictably workable and vastly outdated wooden biplanes, the USSR had to modernize quickly, both its production methods and what it produced, to confront formidable enemies.
The answer was the US, in the Thirties a country and people who paid little attention to the possibility of theft of technical secrets. Soviet Russia was seen as a client more than a rival, and in the pacifist atmosphere of the time, the sale of planes and airplane parts to the USSR enabled American aircraft manufacturers to stay afloat. The same was true of the universities, particularly the young, struggling to stay afloat MIT, which welcomed the foreign students’ tuition and fees.
All this began to change with the pact between Germany and the USSR in 1939, and even more in 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entry into war led to greatly expanded anti-espionage activities in the States. Even then, though, Russian agents continued to have notable successes. Most notably the stealing of information about the huge B29 Super Fortress bombers at the end of the war. (The U SSR didn’t just need information about the A-bomb. They needed planes to deliver it in if ever it was needed.)
The dominant figure in this activity, the best spy the Russians had for the theft of industrial secrets, was MIT-trained Stan Shumovsky, who ended a long and productive life as a Russian hero, and died peacefully.
The wealth and depth of detail in this account and Lokhova’s understanding of it in all its complexities more than makes up for occasional deficiencies in narrative style. This is a very good, very interesting book, a model for the writing of espionage history.