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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from ...
Russia. The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets. Умница. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty. The only training she ever got as a spy was from her...
Summary. The headline in the new york world telegram on july 21, 1948, “Red Ring Bared by Its Blond Queen” began one of the most important and most frustrating of the early Cold War spy cases. Its importance stems from the astounding number of Soviet spies, more than thirty, identified by Elizabeth Bentley and the impact of her revelations ...
A. You are probably thinking of Elizabeth T. Bentley, a Vassar graduate who had led a spy ring for the Soviet Union and then turned double agent in 1945. She helped start what became the Red...
Elizabeth Bentley's decision to visit the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the fall of 1945 and recount her several years as liaison between Soviet intelligence agencies and scores of sources within the U.S. government ignited an internal security firestorm.
Elizabeth Bentley was a prime ex-Communist witness of the early Cold War era, yet her star burned less luminously than those of other former Reds. She took her tale of espionage to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1945 and testified to a grand jury, at eight congressional hearings, and at four trials.
Michael Warner. When you title a book Red Spy Queen, you had better deliver something lurid. Kathryn Olmsted does so in this first, scholarly biography of Soviet spy Elizabeth Bentley, whose career figured in several of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century. The outlines of Bentley’s story have long been clear.
