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A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties remarkable 5* review, TelegraphOn the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blriot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalins most audacious intelligence operation.On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education.Recognising Russia was 100 years behind the encircling capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky on a mission to acquire Americas vital secrets to help close the USSRs yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT Shumovskys destination soon became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to confront and defeat Nazi Germany. Then in an extraordinary feat that astonished the West, in 1947 American ingenuity and innovation exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the most advanced strategic bomber in the world.Following his lead, other MIT-trained Soviet spies helped acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project. By 1949, Stalins fleet of TU-4s, now equipped with atomic bombs could devastate the US on his command. Appropriately codenamed BLRIOT, Shumovsky was an aviation spy. Shumovskys espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes.In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a journey through Stalins most audacious intelligence operation
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- PublisherWilliam Collins
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 0008238146
- ISBN 13 9780008238148
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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