Venona : decoding Soviet espionage in America

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. “A virtual king’s ransom of top-secret bombshells and bangles. —Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report “This book clearly establishes the main contours of the previously hidden landscape of Soviet espionage in the United States in the 30s and 40s. — Maurice -Isserman, New York Times Book Review “John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have squeezed the pulp from five thousand pages of deciphered cables that verify the grim picture of the Communist underground given many decades ago by defectors such as Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. —Sam Tanenhaus, The New Republic John Earl Haynes is 20th Century Political Historian, Library of Congress. Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History at Emory University. They are also the authors of The Secret World of American Communism and The Soviet World of American Communism, both published by Yale University Press.