Early Cold War Spies

The Espionage Trials That Shaped American Politics

By: John Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Donald T. Critchlow (Editor)

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Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that American Communists had co-operated with Soviet espionage against the United States and had assisted in stealing the technical secrets of the atomic bomb as well as penetrating the US State Department, the Treasury Department, and the White House itself. This book, first published in 2006, reviews the major spy cases of the early Cold War (Hiss-Chambers, Rosenberg, Bentley, Gouzenko, Coplon, Amerasia and others) and the often-frustrating clashes between the exacting rules of the American criminal justice system and the requirements of effective counter-espionage.

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'... very good, both as an introductory text and as an example of the promise that comparative study holds for expanding our understanding of espionage, intelligence, and the political environment in which they are carried out. ... Haynes and Klehr are among the best qualified historians to look at Cold War spy cases.' Studies in Intelligence

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Series Editor's Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Early Cold War Spy Cases	p. 1
Early Cold War Spy Trials	p. 3
A Word about Trials and History	p. 6
Spy Trials and McCarthyism	p. 7
Politics of the Early Cold War	p. 8
The Precursors	p. 23
Amerasia: The First Cold War Spy Case	p. 25
Gouzenko: A Canadian Spy Case with American Repercussions	p. 48
Elizabeth Bentley: The Case of the Blond Spy Queen	p. 60
The Silvermaster Group	p. 66
The Perlo Group	p. 67
The Trials of William Remington	p. 73
Venona and Bentley's Vindication	p. 82
The Bentley Case: A Conclusion	p. 88
The Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case	p. 92
Whittaker Chambers	p. 93
Alger Hiss	p. 97
Dueling Testimony	p. 99
The Slander Suit, the Baltimore Documents, and the Pumpkin Papers	p. 103
The Grand Jury	p. 107
The First Hiss Trial	p. 120
The Second Hiss Trial	p. 124
Chambers after the Trial	p. 130
Hiss after the Trial	p. 132
The Historical Argument	p. 132
The Atomic Espionage Cases	p. 138
Klaus Fuchs: The Background	p. 139
Theodore Hall: The Background	p. 142
Rosenberg and Greenglass: The Background	p. 143
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Communists at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory	p. 146
The Red Bomb and the Postwar Trials	p. 151
J. Robert Oppenheimer after the Manhattan Project	p. 177
The Trials of Rudolf Abel and Morris and Lona Cohen	p. 182
Judith Coplon: The Spy Who Got Away with It	p. 192
Coplon's Recruitment into Espionage	p. 193
The Washington Trial	p. 199
The New York Trial	p. 204
On Appeal: Justice Frustrated	p. 205
The Soble-Soblen Case: Last of the Early Cold War Spy Trials	p. 208
Infiltrating the Trotskyist Movement	p. 209
Mark Zborowski	p. 212
Boris Morros: Double Agent	p. 220
The Soble Ring Trials	p. 222
The Robert Soblen Trial	p. 225
Conclusion: The Decline of the Ideological Spy	p. 230
Spy Trials and Understanding Soviet Espionage	p. 232
Counterespionage and the American Criminal Justice System	p. 234
The Elusive Balance between Security and Liberty	p. 236
Index	p. 243

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