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The Venona Secrets

Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

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The Venona Secrets

By: Herbert Romerstein, Eric Breindel
Narrated by: Jim McCance
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About this listen

The Venona Files are several intercepted communiques between the Soviet Union and American Communists following WWII. Some historians and journalists are starting to regard the Cold-War-era American Communist Party as nothing more than a quaint club of polite if misguided ideologues.

In The Venona Secrets, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel intend to create a new impression of treacherous Americans "who willfully gave their primary allegiance to a foreign power, the USSR.... For Communists, true patriotism meant helping to make the world a better place by advancing the interests of the Soviet Union in any way possible." By using the now-celebrated Venona documents - top-secret Soviet cables sent between Moscow and Washington, D.C., in the 1940s - Romerstein and Breindel tell a frightening story of how deeply spies penetrated the U.S. government.

©2000 Herbert Romerstein (P)2012 Regnery Publishing Americas Espionage Political Science Politics & Government Russia True Crime United States World Soviet Union War Imperialism Military Imperial Japan Socialism Holocaust Franklin D Roosevelt Latin American

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I listened to this after the excellent M Stanton Evans book on Senator McCarthy, which really opened my eyes to the media lies told about him.

It's a little dry in places, as there are lots of lists of names (necessarily when talking about spy rings), but well worth buying and downloading.

Informative and quite enjoyable

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