Stone Cold

I. F. Stone

In the early 1990s, Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer turned Russian journalist was given authorized access to the files of the SVR (the successor spy agency to the KGB in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union) to pursue research for a book that was eventually published in 1998 under the title The Haunted Wood.

By the time of publication, Vassiliev, fearing retribution from hard-line Communists and nationalists angered by revelations of secrets, had moved permanently to Great Britain. He left his original notebooks, containing more than 1,100 pages of detailed notes and lengthy quotations, with friends in Moscow. They were filled with details about people and issues that did not fit the parameters of The Haunted Wood or whose significance Vassiliev did not then realize.

Retrieved by Vassiliev in 2002, the VASSILIEVE notebooks offer the most complete look at Soviet espionage in America we have yet had or will obtain until the likely far-off day when Russian authorities open the KGBs archives for independent research, eclipsing even the KGB cables decoded by the NSA in the Venona project.

They -- Vassiliev's notebooks -- are the basis for the new book, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. And they provide startling new evidence about Stones ties to Soviet intelligence.
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[american1476]

gee a jew from Russia was a communist oh and he changed his name... what a surprise.... I wonder where bernanke is from....

[opchidexio2]

I like old Ben. I really do. (I have no problem with Jews -- even those in the banking business.)

[wervasdeferens]

Good info, John.

I've done some "skimming the surface" into the subject, you've peaked my interest.

Keep up the good work, I hope all is well with you.

[opchidexio2]

Thanks, pal. : )

[sharkattack1313]

John, how many more agents are out there? This socialist media, packaged as liberal, well, now progressive, is destroying this country. I am sorry but we, as Americans, know very littl;e because we suck from the teet of the left propaganda. We are just like russia. When I was in school they called it yellow press. Now, it is just a f*&^%g mess.

[opchidexio2]

Yes indeed. :  ) Thanks for stopping by. Yall come back now, ya hear? Bye!

[USoSilly2Me]

Yum Yummy..!! lol

[opchidexio2]

You bet it is. And I'm just getting started. Um, care for some blackberry wine and cheeze-filled jalapenos? Munch, munch... burp. lol

[USoSilly2Me]

Interesting.