{"product_id":"red-spies-in-america-stolen-secrets-and-the-dawn-of-the-cold-war-9780700613519","title":"Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the United States established diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933  it did more than normalize relations with the new Bolshevik state-it opened the door to a parade of Russian spies. In the 1930s and 1940s  Soviet engineers and technicians  under the guise of international cooperation  reaped a rich harvest of intelligence from our industrial plants. Factory layouts  aircraft blueprints  fuel formulas-all were grist for the Soviet espionage mill. And that  as Katherine Sibley shows  was just the beginning. While most historians date the onset of the Cold War with American fears of Soviet global domination after World War II  Sibley shows that it actually began during the war itself. The uncovering of atomic espionage in 1943 in particular not only led to increased surveillance of our ostensible Russian allies but also underscored a growing distrust of the Soviet Union that would eventually morph into full-blown hostility. Meticulously documented through exhaustive new research in American and Soviet archives  Sibleys book provides the most detailed study of Soviet military-industrial espionage to date  revealing that the United States knew much more about Soviet operations than previously acknowledged. She tells of spies like Steve Nelson and Clarence Hiskey  who passed on information about the Manhattan Project; moles within the federal government like Nathan Silvermaster; and Soviet agents like Andrei Schevchenko  who pressed defense workers to divulge high tech secrets. At the same time  as Sibley shows  hundreds of other Red agents went completely undetected. It was only through the revelations of defectors  and the postwar cracking of Soviet codes  that we began to fully understand these breaches in our national security. Sibley describes how our response to this wartime espionage shaped a generation of Red-baiting-triggering loyalty programs  blacklists  and the infamous HUAC hearings-and how it has clouded U.S.-Russian relations down to the present day. She also reviews recent cases-John Walker  Jr.  Aldrich Ames  Robert Hanssen-that demonstrate how Russian efforts to gain American secrets continues well into our present times. For Cold War-watchers and spy aficionados alike  Sibleys work spells out what we actually knew about communist espionage and suggests how and why that knowledge should also shape our understanding of intelligence in the Age of Terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648219799605,"sku":"ByrdShop_070061351X","price":122.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780700613519.jpg?v=1781713165","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/red-spies-in-america-stolen-secrets-and-the-dawn-of-the-cold-war-9780700613519","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}