About the Author

John Earl Haynes is a historian in the Manuscript Division, the Library of Congress. Harvey Klehr is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emory University. Haynes and Klehr are coauthors with Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov of The Secret World of American Communism, published by Yale University Press. Alexander Vassiliev, journalist and coauthor with Allen Weinstein of The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America, now lives in the UK.

Reviews

"[Spies] shows how the Soviets went about the business of spying, its failures and successes, and, most interestingly, the names of the Americans from whom the KGB received information." Alex Kingsbury, US News & World Report
--Alex Kingsbury "US News & World Report ""

"[The book] succeeds as an indictment of an entire era in which some of the nation's best and brightest sold their souls to a foreign master and as a stinging, definitive rebuttal to those who have defended Alger Hiss all of these years." Justin Raimondo, The American Conservative--Justin Raimondo"American Conservative" (08/01/2009)"

"So outstandingly authoritative and convincing is this material that it will take an honored place alongside the basic sources on Soviet espionage in the United States. Here, the heart of the KGB is laid out as never before." Tennent Bagley, author of Spy Wars
--Tennent Bagley"

"Using now available Soviet sources, this valuable book tells the sobering and frightening story of the extent to which ideology will blind clever people and lead them to betray their country, democracy and freedom." Paul Johnson, author of A History of the American People
--Paul Johnson"

This magisterial book transcends the old debates and paradigms, and provides the most complete and thorough account of what Soviet espionage agents actually did in the United States. --;i>The Weekly Standard
--Ronald Radosh "The Weekly Standard ""

This work should serve as the final salvo in the long battle between those who are still in denial regarding KGB espionage in America in the 1930s and 40s and those who assert that this story must be told. David Murphy, author of What Stalin Knew--David Murphy"

"["Spies"] shows how the Soviets went about the business of spying, its failures and successes, and, most interestingly, the names of the Americans from whom the KGB received information."--Alex Kingsbury, "US News & World Report"
--Alex Kingsbury "US News & World Report "

"This magisterial book transcends the old debates and paradigms, and provides the most complete and thorough account of what Soviet espionage agents actually did in the United States."--;i>The Weekly Standard"
--Ronald Radosh "The Weekly Standard "