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Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

by Andrew Meier

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A buried Cold War espionage case, traced across decades

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A buried Cold War espionage case, traced across decades

Andrew Meier reconstructs the obscured case of Isaiah Oggins, a New York intellectual who became one of the earliest Americans to spy for the Soviet Union. Oggins’s 1947 murder on Stalin’s orders remained concealed within Soviet and U.S. intelligence files for decades; even after a dossier reached the White House in 1992, major questions persisted. Drawing on eight years of international investigation, the book follows the effort to bring the scattered record of his life, espionage, and death into view. It places one individual’s fate against the larger machinery of Soviet secret service operations and the long afterlife of Cold War secrecy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Soviet and Cold War espionage history
  • True-crime readers drawn to archival investigations
  • Those interested in American involvement with Soviet intelligence

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EspionageSoviet intelligenceCold War secrecyArchival investigationPolitical murder

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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 Soviet and American intelligence services a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. It surfaced briefly in 1992, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a dossier to the White House, but the full story of what happened remained a mystery. After eight years of international sleuthing, Andrew Meier at last reveals the truth in The Lost Spy Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets."
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