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Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War
Katherine A. S. Sibley
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Description for Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War
Paperback. The most detailed study of Soviet military-industrial espionage during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s spying aimed specifically at acquiring restricted information and materials relating to American industry, technology, and science." Num Pages: 384 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; HBG; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
When the United States established diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933, it did more than normalize relations with the new Bolshevik state-it opened the door to a parade of Russian spies. In the 1930s and 1940s, Soviet engineers and technicians, under the guise of international cooperation, reaped a rich harvest of intelligence from our industrial plants. Factory layouts, aircraft blueprints, fuel formulas-all were grist for the Soviet espionage mill. And that, as Katherine Sibley shows, was just the beginning. While most historians date the onset of the Cold War with American fears of Soviet global ... Read more
When the United States established diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933, it did more than normalize relations with the new Bolshevik state-it opened the door to a parade of Russian spies. In the 1930s and 1940s, Soviet engineers and technicians, under the guise of international cooperation, reaped a rich harvest of intelligence from our industrial plants. Factory layouts, aircraft blueprints, fuel formulas-all were grist for the Soviet espionage mill. And that, as Katherine Sibley shows, was just the beginning. While most historians date the onset of the Cold War with American fears of Soviet global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615551
SKU
V9780700615551
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About Katherine A. S. Sibley
Katherine A. S. Sibley is chair of the history department at St. Joseph's University.
Reviews for Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War
An ambitious, important, and well-written book that conveys the extraordinary scope of Soviet industrial and scientific espionage. - Harvey Klehr, coauthor of In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage An illuminating investigation of the active and extensive Soviet espionage network that operated in the United States beginning in the 1930s. This fine narrative of Soviet spying ... Read more