| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-380) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Oggins, Isaiah.
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Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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Americans -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780393060973 hardcover |
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0393060977 hardcover |
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