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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
The Spy Who Changed History The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets
Svetlana Lokhova
Age (years) : 16 - 99
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In 1931, a Soviet spy named Stanislav Shumovsky arrived in America disguised as a student, aiming to acquire the country's technological secrets to close the gap with the capitalist powers. He and other MIT-trained Soviet spies successfully acquired secrets of the Manhattan Project, enabling the USSR to build an atomic bomb-equipped fleet of TU-4s by 1949. Svetlana Lokhova's Bleriot's Secret follows Shumovsky's life and character, and details his role as an aviation spy who acquired every US aviation secret from a network of agents in factories and military research institutes. Lokhova takes readers on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most daring intelligence operation, using information from American and Russian archives to reveal how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced Shumovsky's schemes.
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Publisher : William Collins Books
Format : Hardcover
Language : English
Content : Non-Fiction
Style : Illustrated - B&W
ISBN : 9780008238117
Size : Medium
SKU : BY9-2020
Genre : Espionage