When the United States established diplomatic ties with the Soviet
Union in 1933, it did more than normalize relations with the new
Bolshevik state--it opened the door to a parade of Russian spies.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Soviet engineers and technicians, under the
guise of international cooperation, reaped a rich harvest of
intelligence from our industrial plants. Factory layouts, aircraft
blueprints, fuel formulas--all were grist for the Soviet espionage
mill. And that, as Katherine Sibley shows, was just the beginning.
While most historians date the onset of the Cold War with
American fears of Soviet global domination after World War II,
Sibley shows that it actually began during the war itself. The
uncovering of atomic espionage in 1943 in particular not only led
to increased surveillance of our ostensible Russian allies but also
underscored a growing distrust of the Soviet Union that would
eventually morph into full-blown hostility.
Meticulously documented through exhaustive new research in
American and Soviet archives, Sibley's book provides the most
detailed study of Soviet military-industrial espionage to date,
revealing that the United States knew much more about Soviet
operations than previously acknowledged. She tells of spies like
Steve Nelson and Clarence Hiskey, who passed on information about
the Manhattan Project; moles within the federal government like
Nathan Silvermaster; and Soviet agents like Andrei Schevchenko, who
pressed defense workers to divulge high tech secrets. At the same
time, as Sibley shows, hundreds of other Red agents went completely
undetected. It was only through the revelations of defectors, and
the postwar cracking of Soviet codes, that we began to fully
understand these breaches in our national security.
Sibley describes how our response to this wartime espionage
shaped a generation of Red-baiting--triggering loyalty programs,
blacklists, and the infamous HUAC hearings--and how it has clouded
U.S.-Russian relations down to the present day. She also reviews
recent cases--John Walker, Jr., Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen--that
demonstrate how Russian efforts to gain American secrets continues
well into our present times.
For Cold War-watchers and spy aficionados alike, Sibley's work
spells out what we actually knew about communist espionage and
suggests how and why that knowledge should also shape our
understanding of intelligence in the Age of Terrorism.
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