The Face of Soviet Espionage in the United States during the Stalin Era: Vladimir Pravdin, “Man of Truth”

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Steven Usdin
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Vladimir Pravdin was a senior Soviet intelligence officer in New York and Washington, DC, during World War II. He oversaw some of the most important Soviet agents of the era, including Harry Dexter White, a senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department; Lauchlin Currie, the chief economic adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; and Judith Coplon, a U.S. Justice Department employee who provided intelligence on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Pravdin's cover in the United States was as an editor and then director of U.S. operations for the TASS news agency. In his capacity as a TASS executive, he developed relationships with numerous U.S. journalists, including Walter Lippmann. Pravdin was born in 1905 in London, and his real name was Roland Abbiate. His unusually adventurous life included serving a two-year sentence in the Atlanta penitentiary prior to his recruitment by Soviet intelligence, surveilling Leon Trotsky in Norway and Mexico, participating in the Spanish Civil War, and leading the assassination of Ignace Poretsky. His story illuminates the triumphs of Soviet intelligence in the United States during World War II, the failures of U.S. counterintelligence, and the unraveling of Soviet espionage in North America following the defections of Igor Gouzenko and Elizabeth Bentley.
斯大林时代美国的苏联间谍面孔:弗拉基米尔-普拉夫丁,"真理之人"
弗拉基米尔-普拉夫丁是第二次世界大战期间驻纽约和华盛顿特区的苏联高级情报官员。他监管着那个时代一些最重要的苏联特工,包括美国财政部高级官员哈里-德克斯特-怀特(Harry Dexter White)、美国总统富兰克林-罗斯福的首席经济顾问劳克林-库里(Lauchlin Currie)以及为美国联邦调查局提供情报的美国司法部雇员朱迪斯-科普伦(Judith Coplon)。普拉夫丁在美国的掩护身份是塔斯社的编辑,随后担任美国业务主管。在担任塔斯社主管期间,他与包括沃尔特-李普曼(Walter Lippmann)在内的众多美国记者建立了关系。普拉夫丁 1905 年出生于伦敦,本名罗兰-阿比亚特。他的一生充满冒险,在被苏联情报机构招募之前,曾在亚特兰大监狱服刑两年,在挪威和墨西哥监视列昂-托洛茨基,参加西班牙内战,并领导了暗杀伊尼亚斯-波列茨基的行动。他的故事揭示了二战期间苏联情报部门在美国的胜利、美国反间谍工作的失败以及伊戈尔-古岑科和伊丽莎白-本特利叛逃后苏联在北美的间谍活动的瓦解。
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