LEADER 04258mam a2200517 a 4500001 1480537 005 20151111201119.0 008 940425s1994 mauaf 001 0aeng d 003 hubpceuo 010 94075737 020 0316773522 : |c$24.95 035 (OCoLC)ocm30325282 035 (NNC)1480537 040 HQB |cHQB |dSPP |dNNC 041 eng 043 e-ur--- 050 4 JN6529.I6 |bS83 1994 082 04 327.1/2/0924B |220 100 1 Sudoplatov, Pavel, |d1907-1996. 242 |yEnglish 245 10 Special tasks : |bthe memoirs of an unwanted witness, a Soviet spymaster / |cPavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov ; with Jerrold L. and Leona P. Schecter ; foreward by Robert Conquest. 250 1st ed. 260 Boston, Mass. : |bLittle, Brown, |cc1994. 300 xxiii, 509 p., [10] p. of plates : |bill. ; |c24 cm. 500 Includes index. 505 2 Foreword / Robert Conquest -- Introduction / Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter -- Evolution of the Soviet Security and Intelligence Service -- Prologue: Revealing a Secret -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Spain: Crucible for Revolution and Purges -- 3. Purge Years -- 4. The Assassination of Trotsky -- 5. Stalin and Hitler: Prelude to War -- 6. The Great Patriotic War: Deception Games and Guerrilla Warfare -- 7. Atomic Spies -- 8. The Cold War -- 9. Raoul Wallenberg, LAB X, and Other Special Tasks -- 10. The Jews: California in the Crimea -- 11. Final Years Under Stalin, 1946-1953 -- 12. The Fall of Beria and My Arrest -- 13. The Trial -- Appendix One: Stalin's Visitors, June 21 and June 22, 1941 -- Appendix Two: Atomic Espionage Documents, 1941-1946 -- Appendix Three: Technical Aspects of the American Atomic Bomb Project -- Appendix Four: First American Atomic Bomb Test -- Appendix Five: Basis for the Katyn Forest Massacre -- Appendix Six: Rehabilitation Documents of Pavel Sudoplatov. 520 The "broad spectrum of problems" in which Soviet intelligence officers Pavel Sudoplatov and Leonid Eitingon were engaged was truly extraordinary: kidnapping and assassination; sabotage and guerrilla warfare during World War II; the establishment of illegal networks in the United States and Western Europe; and, most crucially, atomic espionage in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. 520 8 Special Tasks, the astonishing memoir of Pavel Sudoplatov, is a singular historical document. Among its revelations: How Western scientists Oppenheimer, Fermi, Szilard, Gamow, and Pontecorvo provided, or knowingly allowed transfer of, scientific information essential to the USSR's atom bomb project; how on Stalin's direct orders Sudoplatov organized Trotsky's assassination; the Rosenbergs' real role in Soviet atomic espionage; how Raoul Wallenberg died; how Sudoplatov planted a mole to feed disinformation to the German high command; why Stalin invented the Doctor's Plot and Zionist conspiracy, how he destroyed Soviet Jewry; how Stalin created the Berlin crisis to keep Truman from using nuclear weapons against the imminent Chinese Communist victory; and how Khrushchev and his colleagues engineered Beria's arrest and execution to whitewash their own complicity in Stalin's crimes. 600 10 Sudoplatov, Pavel, |d1907-1996. 610 10 Soviet Union. |bKomitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti |xOfficials and employees |vBiography. 650 0 Intelligence service |zSoviet Union |vBiography. 650 0 Spies |zSoviet Union |vBiography. 650 0 Espionage, Soviet |xHistory |y20th century. 700 1 Sudoplatov, Anatolii Pavlovich. 700 1 Schecter, Jerrold L. 700 1 Schecter, Leona. 700 1 Conquest, Robert. 740 41 The memoirs of an unwanted witness, a Soviet spymaster. 900 AUTH |bTOC 942 |2ddc |cBK 580 HU OSA 385 - Donation of Victor M. Fic 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6327_120924000000000_20_SUD |70 |8GEN |920998OSA |bOSA |d2013-03-13 |eFIC |l0 |o327.1/2/0924 20 SUD |r2013-03-13 |t1 |w2013-03-13 |yBK |zDonation of Victor M. Fic. With handwritten notes of the donor. |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 0YqwQ7od 992 01 327_120924000000000_20_SUD |bWXS_YXZQXVZZZZZZZZZ_XZ_75M 966 |cIn the Research Room