Christina Shelton
Autor von Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason
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Christina Shelton is a retired U.S. intelligence analyst who spent more than two decades of her thirty-two-year career working as a Soviet analyst and a Counterintelligence Branch Chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She also served in other intelligence agencies and as a staff analyst at mehr anzeigen several think tanks. weniger anzeigen
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The difference this made a Yalta is really incalculable. The shape of Europe after WWII was crafted based on decisions at Yalta where Hiss attended and passed on US plans to the Russians.
There is some political weighing that takes place in this book as the author airs her opinions about right and left in the US. However, it ties in with the story fairly well. McCarthyism is dealt with and the author does not defend McCarthyism but she decries the unfortunate result of McCarthyism where many people still remain unaware of the depth of penetration and influence the Soviets had in US government in the 20s, 30s and into WWII.
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