Author: MEIER, ANDREW
Title: The lost spy : an American in Stalin's secret service
Description: New York : W. W. Norton and Co. 2008. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 402 pages; Description: x. 402 p. : ill.map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-380) and index. Subjects: Oggins. Isaiah. Spies --Soviet Union --Spies --Americans --Biography. Summary: For half a century. the case of Isaiah Oggins. a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders. remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI--a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then. in 1992. it surfaced briefly. when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. This book at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing. journalist Meier traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail--a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria--and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. by Andrew Meier.Weight in Kg appr.:

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