Intelligence agencies and the Kremlin

Author: Pavel Sudoplatov
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: Based on the author's personal experiences, observations, and firsthand accounts, this book narrates some major historical events in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, revealing many little-known and even shocking facts. For example, the detailed circumstances of the planned assassination of Trotsky; collaboration with renowned scientists such as Bohr, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and Einstein to develop atomic weapons, stealing U.S. and British nuclear secrets, and accelerating the Soviet Union's atomic bomb program; the Soviet Union's involvement in Eastern European affairs, even recruiting President Benes of Czechoslovakia as a KGB spy; establishing a Jewish state in Crimea during World War II through espionage activities, and so on. The content is rich, the information is well-documented, and the book is highly readable.