The spy who changed history : the untold story of how the Soviet Union stole America's top secrets /

On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Stanislav Shumovsky, codenamed Agent BLÉRIOT, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lokhova, Svetlana (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pegasus Books, 2019.
Edition:	First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Shumovsky, Stanislav, > 1902-1984. Spies > Soviet Union > Biography. Espionage, Soviet > United States. Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1917-1936. Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
'Son of the working people'
'We catch up or they will crush us'
'What the country needs is a real big laugh'
'Agent 001'
'A nice fellow to talk to'
'Is this really my motherland?'
'Questionable from conception'
'The wily Armenian'
Whistle stop inspections
Glory to Stalin's falcons
Back in the USSR
Project 'AIR'
ENORMOZ
Mission accomplished.