Stalin's agent : the life and death of Alexander Orlov / / Boris Volodarsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788078903321
• Autore: Volodarsky Boris
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015
• ISBN: 0-19-104553-5; 0-19-104552-7
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (832 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.12092
• Soggetti: Soviet Union History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Pt. I FELDBIN, AKA NIKOLSKY, AKA NIKOLAEV, AKA GOLDIN, AKA ORLOV -- 1. Bobruisk and Moscow -- 2. Paris: August 1926-December 1927 -- 3. Berlin: January 1928-April 1931 -- Interlude 1 First American Adventure: September-November 1932 -- 4. Vienna: April-July 1933 -- 5. Geneva and Paris: Operation express, July 1933-May 1934 -- 6. Enterprise 'O' -- 7. Vienna, Copenhagen, and London: 19 June-25 July 1934 -- Interlude 2 London: September-December 1934 -- 8. London: January-March 1935 -- 9. Copenhagen: Early 1935 -- 10. Comrade Resident: June-September 1935 -- 11. Home, Sweet Home: October 1935-September 1936 -- pt. II IN SPAIN -- 12. The Backdrop: Spilling the Spanish Beans -- 13. Moscow, Madrid, and Valencia: August 1936-January 1937 -- 14. The Internationals -- 15. Juzik will be called Artur -- 16. NKVD and their 'Neighbours', 1937 -- 17. The Secret History of Orlov's Crimes: January 1937-July 1938 -- 18. The POUM Affair: Operation Nikolai -- 19. Murder in Lausanne -- 20.1938 and Beyond -- pt. III THE ORLOV LEGACY -- Interlude 3 The Letter -- 21. From Trotsky to Tito -- 22. True Lies -- 23. The Affair called 'Agent Mark' -- 24. M15: Secrets of Personal File 605.075 -- 25. KGB in the Law Quad -- 26. In and Out of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire -- 27. Comrade Walter -- 28. Conclusion: Behind Closed Curtains -- Appendices -- I. Dr Arnold Deutsch -- II. Soviet Agents, Suspected Agents, Collaborators, and Sympathizers -- III. Documents.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the ; biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after