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The Spy Who Changed History - The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets (Paperback)
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The Spy Who Changed History - The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets (Paperback)
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'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet
espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph On
the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bleriot, in this bestseller,
Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through
Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny
September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of
the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York.
Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his
journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was
concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious
academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent
education. Recognising Russia was 100 years behind the encircling
capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky
on a mission to acquire America's vital secrets to help close the
USSR's yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the
classrooms and laboratories of MIT - Shumovsky's destination soon
became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The
USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to
confront and defeat Nazi Germany. Then in an extraordinary feat
that astonished the West, in 1947 American ingenuity and innovation
exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the
most advanced strategic bomber in the world. Following his lead,
other MIT-trained Soviet spies helped acquire the secrets of the
Manhattan Project. By 1949, Stalin's fleet of TU-4s, now equipped
with atomic bombs could devastate the US on his command.
Appropriately codenamed BLERIOT, Shumovsky was an aviation spy.
Shumovsky's espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired
every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories
and at top secret military research institutes. In this thrilling
history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a journey through
Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. She pieces together
every aspect of Shumovsky's life and character using information
derived from American and Russian archives, exposing how even
Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his
schemes.
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