Early Cold War Spies :The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics ( Cambridge Essential Histories )

Publication subTitle :The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics

Publication series :Cambridge Essential Histories

Author: John Earl Haynes; Harvey Klehr  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2006

E-ISBN: 9780511247804

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521857383

Subject: K7 Americas History

Keyword: 美洲史

Language: ENG

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Early Cold War Spies

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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.

Chapter

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Soviet Espionage in the Early Cold War

The American Communist Movement

The Politics of Post–World War II Anticommunism

2 The Precursors

Amerasia: The First Cold War Spy Case

Sequel to Amerasia: McCarran and Lattimore

Gouzenko: A Canadian Spy Case with American Repercussions

FURTHER READINGS

The Amerasia Case

Owen Lattimore

Gouzenko: A Canadian Spy Case with American Repercussions

3 Elizabeth Bentley

The Silvermaster Group

The Perlo Group

The Trials of William Remington

Venona and Bentley’s Vindication

The Bentley Case: A Conclusion

FURTHER READINGS

Elizabeth Bentley

William Remington

Harry Dexter White

William Weisband

4 The Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers Case

Whittaker Chambers

Alger Hiss

Dueling Testimony

The Slander Suit, the Baltimore Documents, and the Pumpkin Papers

The Grand Jury

The First Hiss Trial

The Second Hiss Trial

Chambers after the Trial

Hiss after the Trial

The Historical Argument

FURTHER READINGS

5 The Atomic Espionage Cases

Klaus Fuchs: The Background

Theodore Hall: The Background

Rosenberg and Greenglass: The Background

J. Robert Oppenheimer and Communists at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory

The Red Bomb and the Postwar Trials

The Trial of Klaus Fuchs

The Arrest of Harry Gold

The Trials of Brothman, Moskowitz, Smilg, and Slack

The Arrests of the Greenglasses, the Rosenbergs, and Morton Sobell

The Disappearance of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant

The Trial of William Perl

Theodore Hall and Saville Sax Avoid Arrest

The Trials of Gold, the Rosenbergs, Sobell, and Greenglass

J. Robert Oppenheimer after the Manhattan Project

The Trials of Rudolf Abel and Morris and Lona Cohen

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Klaus Fuchs

The Rosenberg Apparatus

Theodore Hall, Morris and Lona Cohen

Rudolf Abel

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory

6 Judith Coplon

Coplon’s Recruitment into Espionage

The Washington Trial

The New York Trial

On Appeal: Justice Frustrated

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7 The Soble-Soblen Case

Infiltrating the Trotskyist Movement

Mark Zborowski

The Kravchenko Affair

Zborowski’s Trials

Boris Morros: Double Agent

The Soble Ring Trials

The Robert Soblen Trial

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8 Conclusion

Spy Trials and Understanding Soviet Espionage

Counterespionage and the American Criminal Justice System

The Elusive Balance between Security and Liberty

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Index

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