The Spy Who Changed History The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets

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.