Red Spy Queen

Red Spy Queen
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780807862179
ISBN-13 : 0807862177
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Book Synopsis Red Spy Queen by : Kathryn S. Olmsted

Download or read book Red Spy Queen written by Kathryn S. Olmsted and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 silence her forever. To save her own life, Bentley decided to betray her friends and comrades to the FBI. Her defection effectively shut down Soviet espionage in the United States for years. Despite her crucial role in the cultural and political history of the early Cold War, Bentley has long been overlooked or underestimated by historians. Now, new documents from Russian and American archives make it possible to assess the veracity of her allegations. This long overdue biography rescues Elizabeth Bentley from obscurity and tells her dramatic life story.


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