The Venona secrets : exposing Soviet espionage and America's traitors

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Label

The Venona secrets : exposing Soviet espionage and America's traitors

Title remainder

exposing Soviet espionage and America's traitors

Statement of responsibility

Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel

Creator

• Romerstein, Herbert

Contributor

• Breindel, Eric, 1955-1998

Subject

• Espionage, Soviet -- United States -- History
• History
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History
• Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie -- History
• Soviet Union, Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History
• Cryptography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States, Signal Security Agency -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

• Chronicles the Soviet Union's spying activities in the 1940s, linking Soviet spies with high-ranking figures in U.S. politics, literature, and business and discussing the military and atomic secrets they procured
• "In 1995 the Venona documents - secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted - finally became available to American historians." "Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets." "Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that reached from Harry Hopkins in Franklin Roosevelt's White House to Alger Hiss in the State Department to Harry Dexter White in the Treasury."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.54/8647

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

LC call number

DK266.3

LC item number

.R66 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography