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The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
by: Andrew Meier

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.12470092
EAN: 9780393060973
ISBN: 0393060977
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 11, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 86276

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Product Description:
Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation.

For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI—a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. The Lost Spy at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets.

Based on six years of international sleuthing, The Lost Spy traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail—a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria—and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory. As harrowing as Darkness at Noon and as tragic as Dr. Zhivago, The Lost Spy is one of the great nonfiction detective stories of our time. 16 pages of illustrations.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- The Lost Spy An American in Stalin's secret service
Save your money or go to the library. I was pulled in by the title too, but the author doesn't deliver. You can read the entire book and still not know any deed that Cy Oggins or his wife actually did in their service as "spies" for the Soviet Union.

The author seems detached from anything that approaches "being judgmental" about these two deciding to spy for Stalin - and you never find out why they did.

The only tisk tisking is saved not for Cy Oogins the spy but for his older brother who was (Gasp!) a Republican who actually ran for office and loved his country.

My opinion: The author got too close to Son of Cy the Spy and wound up writing a nice little book about his father the spy - who wasn't such a bad guy after all (except for the spying stuff)....nice ... Read More

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- Where's The Beef???????
It gets 3 stars for being well written . However , the facts are mostly just
speculation. There really isn't much in the way of concrete evidence that
beyond a reasonable doubt ties Cy Oggins to much of anything . He's a fringe
shadowy character in his own story .It's essentially all circumstantial.The
tragedy is how he and countless others have been seduced by communism and then betrayed by it .

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- THE LOST SPY
"The Lost Spy" by Andrew Meier is above all, a masterpiece of research, and story telling. The author takes the reader into a dark but fascinating labyrinth of idealism, espionage, and...murder.

Jaded by labor disputes, union battles with striking workers, social unrest, anti-Semitism, and college politics mixed with America's entry into World War I, an intelligent young man named "Cy" Oggins... becomes lost in a diabolical world.

"Cy" Oggins is seduced and mesmerized by the hallucinatory utopia espoused by Communism and the Soviet Union's "Great Social Experiment." Oggins, like so many of the others from the "Lost Generation" follow the flute of the Bolshevik Pied Piper and down the streets and alleyways of "No Return."

Oggins weaves in and out of various Communist ... Read More

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- Stranger and more exciting than fiction
This story of the life and fate of an American radical who spied for the USSR and was rewarded with his liquidation by the Stalinists can be appreciated on many levels. First, it is an exciting spy story, better than any fictional account. Secondly, it is a devastating expose of American radicalism in the first half of the twentieth century. Finally, and here one can be misunderstood, it is the story of the Jews' fascination with Communism and the nemesis that resulted.

American radicals were so disenchanted with American life in the first part of the 20th Century that they were easily taken in by Communism. Many of them were not in impoverished circumstances and suffered most probably from various infantile psychological disorders. The experience of the New Left in the second half of the ... Read More

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- The lost art
Andrew Meier writes non fiction in a way that lets us be intrigued yet actually comprehend the complexity of the topics he discusses. Like with Black Earth he wrote an incredibly readable analysis of the fall of Russia by writing the truth. Once again he shares his vision wisely and with great detail.

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