The Venona Secrets by Romerstein, Herbert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Preface CHAPTER 1 - What Was Venona?

The Communist Party USA and Soviet Espionage Alarm Signal from Canada Trotsky Exposes the Spy Network—But Few Listen Aborting the Communist Anti-Nazism Campaign The Young Code Breakers

CHAPTER 2 - An “Agent of Influence” Makes History

Pavlov Joins NKVD A Spy Can Influence Policy The Silvermaster Ring The Morgenthau Plan Helps Nazi Propaganda Spies at the Founding Conference of the UN White Finally Gets Paid

CHAPTER 3 - The Making of an Apparat

Planning Ahead Earl Browder: Moscow’s Man in America Clandestine Comintern Work

CHAPTER 4 - Whittaker Chambers’s Spy Ring

Chambers Returns to the Communist Party Enter George Mink The Burglary of Jay Lovestone’s Files From Communist Study Group to Spy Ring Enter Boris Bykov The Robinson/Rubens Case Chambers Breaks with Communism Chambers Fears for His Life Chambers Is Discovered by Congress Hiss Is Indicted for Perjury Noel Field: “The Other Hiss” Hiss in Venona Hiss’s Last Report

CHAPTER 5 - The Elizabeth Bentley Spy Rings

Jacob Golos The Silvermaster Ring The Perlo Ring Target: Eleanor Roosevelt The Mayflower Communist and the Roosevelts Bentley Confesses The Comintern Goes Underground

CHAPTER 6 - Atomic Espionage

The Canadian Connection The Nineteen-Year-Old Spy Harry Hopkins—Soviet Spy “Kvant”—Mercenary Arthur Adams—A Veteran Spy Klaus Fuchs––Spy from Germany

CHAPTER 7 - Atomic Espionage—The Rosenberg Case

Julius Rosenberg Identified Other Members of the Rosenberg Ring Sarant and Barr Flee The Rosenberg Defense Campaign

CHAPTER 8 - Atomic Espionage—California Phase

Using Trade Unions The J. Robert Oppenheimer Case Einstein and Atomic Espionage

CHAPTER 9 - Target: OSS

The Communists Become “Patriotic”—But… Donovan Goes to Moscow Bentley and the Agents in OSS A Longtime Communist in the OSS Spies in the Justice Department British Intelligence in New York The French Connection

CHAPTER 10 - Hunting Down “Polecats”

The Hunt for Enemies of the State The Purge Trials The Dewey Commission Enter Ambassador Davies The Assassination of Trotsky

CHAPTER 11 - The Jack Soble/Robert Soblen Ring

The Plot Against Kravchenko Further Adventures of Mark Zborowski, Cultural Anthropologist Zarubin’s Stern Gang The Waning of the Sterns

CHAPTER 12 - “Polecats” and “Rats”: Spying on Dissidents and Jews

Stalin: Jews and Negroes Are Not Americans Targeting Jewish Organizations Duping Albert Einstein The Murder of Erlich and Alter Target: Jewish Telegraphic Agency The International Workers Order and Espionage

CHAPTER 13 - Target: Journalists

The Recruitment of I. F. Stone Target: Lippmann Mission in Moscow

CHAPTER 14 - Conclusion APPENDIX A - The Documents APPENDIX B - The Spies NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY Acknowledgments Copyright Page