The Soviet-German War of 1941-1945 was the most extensive
intelligence/counterintelligence war in modern history, involving
the capture, torture, deportation, execution, and "doubling" of
tens of thousands of agents--most of them Soviet citizens. While
Russian armies fought furiously to defeat the Wehrmacht, Stalin's
security services waged an equally ruthless secret war against
Hitler's spies, as well as against the Soviet population. For the
first time, Robert Stephan now combines declassified U.S.
intelligence documents, captured German records, and Russian
sources, including a top-secret Soviet history of its intelligence
and security services, to reveal the magnitude and scope of the
brutal but sophisticated Soviet counterintelligence war against
Nazi Germany.
Employing as many as 150,000 trained agents across a 2,400-mile
front, the Soviets neutralized the majority of the more than 40,000
German agents deployed against them. As Stephan shows, their
combination of Soviet military deception operations and State
Security's defeat of the Abwehr's human intelligence effort had
devastating consequences for the German Army in every major battle
against the Red army, including Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, the
Belorussian offensive, and the Vistula-Oder operation.
Simultaneously, Soviet State Security continued to penetrate the
world's major intelligence services including those of its allies,
terrorize its own citizens to prevent spying, desertion, and real
or perceived opposition to the regime, and run millions of
informants, making the USSR a vast prison covering one sixth of the
world's surface.
Stephan discusses all facets of the Soviet counterintelligence
effort, including the major Soviet "radio games" used to mislead
the Germans--operations Monastery, Berezino, and those that
defeated Himmler's Operation Zeppelin. He also gives the most
comprehensive account to date of the Abwehr's infamous agent "Max,"
whose organization allegedly ran an entire network of agents inside
the USSR, and reveals the reasons for Germany's catastrophic
under-estimation of Soviet forces by more than one million men
during their 1944 summer offensive in Belorussia.
Richly detailed and epic in scope, "Stalin's Secret War" opens
up a previously hidden dimension of World War II.
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