The Lost Spy An American in Stalin's Secret Service [Paperback]

For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalins orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the Soviet and American intelligence servicesa footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. It surfaced briefly in 1992, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a dossier to the White House, but the full story of what happened remained a mystery. After eight years of international sleuthing, Andrew Meier at last reveals the truth inA well-written and rewarding romp through the international communist movement of the 1920s and 30s.An espionage thriller of the first rank.Utterly fascinating, a sad and sinuous study.Richard Schickel,