Stalin's American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show Trials

摘要

One of the enduring puzzles of the early Cold War years is the role of Noel Field, an American who worked for Soviet intelligence in the 1930s. Stalin used his alleged activities as a recruiter of European communists to spy for the United States as a pretext for the show trials of the late 1940s and early 1950s, which decimated the Hungarian, Czechoslovak and East German party leaderships. But for whom did Field really work?