Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge Essential Histories)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 15
Early Cold War Spy Trials......Page 17
A Word about Trials and History......Page 20
Spy Trials and McCarthyism......Page 21
Politics of the Early Cold War......Page 22
Soviet Espionage in the Early Cold War......Page 31
The American Communist Movement......Page 33
The Politics of Post–World War II Anticommunism......Page 34
2 The Precursors......Page 37
Amerasia: The First Cold War Spy Case......Page 39
Sequel to Amerasia: McCarran and Lattimore......Page 58
Gouzenko: A Canadian Spy Case with American Repercussions......Page 62
The Amerasia Case......Page 71
Gouzenko: A Canadian Spy Case with American Repercussions......Page 72
3 Elizabeth Bentley......Page 74
The Silvermaster Group......Page 80
The Perlo Group......Page 81
The Trials of William Remington......Page 87
Venona and Bentley’s Vindication......Page 96
The Bentley Case: A Conclusion......Page 102
Elizabeth Bentley......Page 103
Harry Dexter White......Page 104
William Weisband......Page 105
4 The Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers Case......Page 106
Whittaker Chambers......Page 107
Alger Hiss......Page 111
Dueling Testimony......Page 113
The Slander Suit, the Baltimore Documents, and the Pumpkin Papers......Page 117
The Grand Jury......Page 121
The First Hiss Trial......Page 134
The Second Hiss Trial......Page 138
Chambers after the Trial......Page 144
The Historical Argument......Page 146
FURTHER READINGS......Page 149
5 The Atomic Espionage Cases......Page 152
Klaus Fuchs: The Background......Page 153
Theodore Hall: The Background......Page 156
Rosenberg and Greenglass: The Background......Page 157
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Communists at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory......Page 160
The Red Bomb and the Postwar Trials......Page 165
The Trial of Klaus Fuchs......Page 166
The Arrest of Harry Gold......Page 168
The Trials of Brothman, Moskowitz, Smilg, and Slack......Page 170
The Arrests of the Greenglasses, the Rosenbergs, and Morton Sobell......Page 171
The Disappearance of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant......Page 174
The Trial of William Perl......Page 175
Theodore Hall and Saville Sax Avoid Arrest......Page 178
The Trials of Gold, the Rosenbergs, Sobell, and Greenglass......Page 180
J. Robert Oppenheimer after the Manhattan Project......Page 191
The Trials of Rudolf Abel and Morris and Lona Cohen......Page 196
Klaus Fuchs......Page 201
The Rosenberg Apparatus......Page 202
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory......Page 203
6 Judith Coplon......Page 206
Coplon’s Recruitment into Espionage......Page 207
The Washington Trial......Page 213
The New York Trial......Page 218
On Appeal: Justice Frustrated......Page 219
FURTHER READINGS......Page 221
7 The Soble-Soblen Case......Page 222
Infiltrating the Trotskyist Movement......Page 223
The Kravchenko Affair......Page 226
Zborowski’s Trials......Page 231
Boris Morros: Double Agent......Page 234
The Soble Ring Trials......Page 236
The Robert Soblen Trial......Page 239
FURTHER READINGS......Page 242
8 Conclusion......Page 244
Spy Trials and Understanding Soviet Espionage......Page 246
Counterespionage and the American Criminal Justice System......Page 248
The Elusive Balance between Security and Liberty......Page 250
FURTHER READINGS......Page 254
Index......Page 257