The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

by Andrew Meier

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For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI—a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. The Lost Spy at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets.Based on six years of international sleuthing, The Lost Spy traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail—a brilliant Columbia University...Read more
  • ISBN10 0393060977
  • ISBN13 9780393060973
  • Publish Date 5 September 2008 (first published 17 August 2008)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 9 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Language English