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100 1 $aSudoplatov, Pavel,$d1907-1996.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94051560
245 10 $aSpecial tasks :$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 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston, Mass. :$bLittle, Brown,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxiii, 509 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 2 $aForeword / 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 $aThe "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520 8 $aSpecial Tasks, the astonishing memoir of Pavel Sudoplatov, is a singular historical document.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 $aSudoplatov, Pavel,$d1907-1996.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94051560
610 10 $aSoviet Union.$bKomitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti$xOfficials and employees$vBiography.
650 0 $aIntelligence service$zSoviet Union$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127367
650 0 $aSpies$zSoviet Union$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112191
650 0 $aEspionage, Soviet$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aSudoplatov, Anatoliĭ Pavlovich.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82017972
700 1 $aSchecter, Jerrold L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85272000
700 1 $aSchecter, Leona.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88030254
700 1 $aConquest, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018440
740 4 $aThe memoirs of an unwanted witness, a Soviet spymaster.
852 00 $bleh$hJN6529.I6$iS83 1994