Venona (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Earl Haynes
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1940’s and the 1950’s
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Earl Browder, Lauchlin Currie, Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, Alger Hiss, Julius, Ethel Rosenberg, Harry White, Vasily Zubilin
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Communism or communists, 1940’s, World War II, Espionage or spies, Atomic bomb, Soviet Union or Soviets, Ciphers or code names
- Locales: United States
Although the United States and the Soviet Union became allies against the Nazis after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June, 1941, the Soviets conducted extensive industrial, scientific, and military spying against the United States throughout the 1940’s and the 1950’s. The full extent of Soviet spying in America and the active collaboration of more than three hundred Americans with Soviet intelligence agents was not revealed to the public until the 1995 release by the United States government of the Venona cables.
In 1939, officials in American and British...
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