The Haunted Wood

Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 1930s through the early cold war.

Allen Weinstein is founder and president of The Center for Democracy. His books include Freedom and Crisis: An American History and Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. He lives in Washington, D.C.<br>Alexander Vassilyev is a Russian journalist. He is a former KGB agent and lives in Western Europe.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xv

Cast of Characters

xxi

PART ONE: Burden of Innocence: The New Deal Years

1

(150)

Communist Romantics, I: The Reluctant Laurence Duggan

3

(19)

Creating the Soviet Networks: Hiss, Chambers, and Early Recruits

22

(28)

Love and Loyalties, I: The Case of Martha Dodd

50

(22)

Communist Romantics, II: The Exuberant Michael Straight

72

(12)

Love and Loyalties, II: Elizabeth Bentley and Jacob Golos

84

(26)

Double Agent/Hollywood Hustler: The Case of Boris Morros

110

(30)

``Crook'': A Soviet Agent in Congress

140

(11)

PART TWO: The Third Front: Soviet Espionage in the Second World War

151

(130)

Harvest Time, I: The Silvermaster Network in Wartime Washington

153

(19)

Atomic Espionage: From Fuchs to the Rosenbergs

172

(51)

Harvest Time, II: The Perlo Group

223

(15)

OSS and NKGB: Penetration Agents

238

(27)

Harvest Time, III: Hiss, Glasser, and Warning Signs

265

(16)

PART THREE: Discovery: Cold War Confrontation

281

(58)

Flight from Exposure, I: The Washington Sources

283

(28)

Flight from Exposure, II: The Atom Spies

311

(28)

Epilogue: Aftermath and Legacy

339

(6)

Notes

345

(32)

Bibliography

377

(6)

Index

383

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