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Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government Hardcover – November 13, 2012


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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Threshold Editions; 1St Edition edition (November 13, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143914768X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439147689
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
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Conservatives and liberals both have their treasured narratives that they repeatedly chant like a mantra. Evans and Romerstein are conservative journalists, and both have written extensively on issues related to the Cold War. Here they deal with the issue of “massive” and, in their view, effective Soviet infiltration of agents into the highest levels of the successive Roosevelt administrations during the 1930s and 1940s. And they aren’t making stuff up. Using recently declassified information from both Soviet and American archives, they show that Soviet efforts at subversion were indeed massive, but that point has been made before. Yet Evans and Romerstein go much further. They assert that successful Soviet efforts to insert agents into the government led, naturally, to the passing of information and also to strong influence over foreign policy. For example, based on very fragmentary evidence, they claim that Alger Hiss strongly influenced the American concessions made at Yalta. This work will be red meat for many conservative ideologues but is unlikely to persuade more objective readers. --Jay Freeman

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"With his deep, slightly raspy, and deliberate voice, Alan Sklar creates a dark, foreboding atmosphere that enhances the authors' text. His narration is well paced and compelling." ---Publishers Weekly Audio Review --This text refers to the MP3 CD edition.

Customer Reviews

This guy should be required reading for all high school students.
James A. Fairman
Well documented by the Verona Decrypts, KGB files, FBI files, defecting Soviet agents, etc.
Donald R. Obrien
This book filled many of the gaps that exist in the recordings of history.
Michael Wiley

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74 of 80 people found the following review helpful By Paul Gelman on November 29, 2012
Format: Hardcover
It has long been opined that in many ways the Cold War was a war of shadows, in which espionage and intelligence have played a central role in it. According to some experts' views the spies helped maintain the balance between both sides, the East and the West, making sure that no side would gain any advantage over the other in any field, especially in the strategic and tactical fields. I concur with this view and, in fact, I am more than certain that intelligence was a powerful tool in the hands of the policy makers during this war.
This new book only sharpens this view by presenting its central thesis which is as follows: the penetration of Russian spies into almost all the federal agencies of the USA was extremely deep. Unfortunately, as the authors claim, the overall picture is still far from being complete, since so many original documents were destroyed, sanitized or manipulated. In other words,it will take many more years to get the real and full picture of the role that intelligence played in this war.
But this book is not really about spies;it is about agents of influence, working on behalf of their Russian masters, who controlled tham from the Kremlin or inside the USA. These agents were to be found in any governmental agency and names such as Alger Hiss, Elizabeth Bentley and Harry Hopkins are well known.
However, the authors have done a very good job in bringing to surface some more names of tens of people who were involved in establishing a constant channel between Moscow and Washington, through which vital information was reaching the upper echelons of the Russian leaders.Hundreds of Soviet agents, Communist party members and fellow travellers were ensconced on offficial payrolls, beginning in the New Deal era.
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68 of 74 people found the following review helpful By Bernard Chapin on December 7, 2012
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And concise history too! That was my one complaint about Blacklisted by History--M. Stanton Evan's immortal biography of Senator McCarthy--was that it was too long for me to really get a handle on. This release is completely different as Stalin's Secret Agents is concise but very informative. Evan's thesis is correct: socialist infiltration of our government in the forties is the greatest story never told! Even if one fails to use the term as a descriptor of an individual, the left howls "McCarthyism" should one even imply that socialism is real and that socialism exists today. Yet it does, and its continued existence is assisted by the protection of the Obama White House. Making the threat known was a major reason why the left clamored so hard to get Glenn Beck off the air. Here, in this book, the historian discusses many facts that are readily available elsewhere in historical scholarship concerning Venona--specifically, in the many Klehr and Haynes books along with a couple by Herbert Rommerstein. So it's not that Evans is saying anything new here as much as he succeeds in presenting a sharply crafted and readable narrative. Again, this isn't written in the encyclopedic style. It's a tightly wrapped tale that is also very enjoyable. Once you've consumed the text you'll have no doubt that FDR was the biggest communist dupe in history. Right underneath his cigarette holder crawled the nefarious traitor Harry Hopkins, a man who single handedly gave Poland over to totalitarianism. He also delivered our uranium and heavy water supplies to the Soviets via his manipulations at a base in Montana. You'll become furious upon observing the method by which Hopkins undermined the careers of those military men who stood up to him.Read more ›
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71 of 78 people found the following review helpful By Nikephorus Phokas on December 22, 2012
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Reading this book fills you with an increasing dread to see how deeply the US Govt in the FDR administration was penetrated by traitors working directly for the Soviet Union. It becomes drepressingly clear that FDR was so naive and feckless in allowing himself to be surrounded by and eventually grossly manipulated by these people that he was in serious violation of his oath of office to protect and defend the United States. These Soviet agents not only surrounded Roosevelt but were gaining control of wartime and postwar policy making bodies, especially the State Department, purging them of anti-communist and security personnel in order to advance the interests of the Soviet Union. The Army's G2 files on subervises were broken up and buried in the archives, and the office closed down. Restrictions on employment of Communist Party of the USA members by the Government and their commissioning in the armed forces were lifted, all directed by the White House at the instigation of these traitors, chief of whom was Harry Hopkins. The book especially focuses on Hopkins role as the most powerful man in the Government after FDR and his unfailing efforts to give Stalin everything he wanted with no quid pro quo or consideration of American interests and to put the US Government fully behind the advancement of Soviet interests. And it goes on and on. This is well-researched and argued book, and I recommend it for every citizen jealous of his liberties. It is a cautionary tale of how the Left continues to operate, distilled in the CPUSA slogan of the 1940s: "There are no enemies on the Left." That, some may have noticed, is how the mainstream media treated candidate Obama in the last two elections. Peter G. Tsouras
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