Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

John Earl Haynes

Yale University Press, 1999 - Communism - 487 pages

This extraordinary book is the first to examine the thousands of documents of the super-secret Venona Project -- an American intelligence project that uncovered not only an enormous range of Soviet espionage activities against the United States during World War II but also the Americans who abetted this effort. The stunning revelations of the Venona papers, only made public in 1995, illuminate in a new way the Stalin era and early Cold War years.

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Those who were convinced that the Soviets were spying on us during the 1930s and 1940s were right. Haynes and Klehr have provided the most extensive evidence to date that the KGB had operatives at all ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America; Yale Nota Bene
• Author: John Earl Haynes
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0300129874, 9780300129878
• Length: 487 pages