John Earl Haynes

Biographic Data

ID3596289
NAMEJohn Earl Haynes
GIVEN NAMESJohn Earl
FAMILY NAMEHaynes
SIGNATUREHAYNES J E
AFFILIATIONSLibrary of Congress
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Reexamining East-West Intelligence Operations during the Cold War

    Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2026

    Calder Walton, Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023. 688 pp. $34.99. Editor's Introduction: Calder Walton, the assistant director of a program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government dealing with foreign intelligence operations, recently published a lengthy overview of the Cold War-era “intelligence war between East and West.” The book received a good deal of publicity and was favor…

  • “Operation Snow”: A History Changing Soviet “Agent of Influence” Success or KGB Propaganda

    John Earl Haynes, Harvey KlehrARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    In 1995, Committee for State Security lieutenant general Vitaly Pavlov published “The Time Has Come to Talk about Operation ‘Snow’” in News of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Pavlov maintained that, in early 1941, Soviet intelligence had concluded that Germany would invade the USSR and Japan would use the opportunity to invade the Soviet Far East, confronting the USSR with an unwinnable two-front war. The People's Commissariat for Internal …

  • Alger Hiss and Soviet Espionage Operations: A Failed Quest to Rewrite History

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2025

    Jeff Kisseloff, Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2025. 389 pp.In this new book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, the journalist Jeff Kisseloff sets out to provide a new history of Alger Hiss's conviction on perjury charges in 1950. The statute of limitations for espionage had expired by 1950, but the perjury convi…

  • Reappraising American Communism and the Cold War

    Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2025

    Maurice Isserman, Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism. New York: Basic Books, 2024. 384 pp. $35.00.For more than thirty years, Maurice Isserman and I have been cast as polar opposites in the academic battle about the nature of American Communism. As the avatar of the new “revisionist’ history of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), he supposedly inaugurated a rethinking of the legacy of the heretofore reviled organization that had been pil…

  • Nuclear Weapons, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the Cold War

    Gregg Herken, John Earl Haynes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2024

    This forum contains three detailed analyses of the film Oppenheimer (2023), an eponymous dramatic production directed by Christopher Nolan about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in overseeing the Manhattan Project, the secret U.S. wartime effort to build a nuclear bomb. Oppenheimer was hugely successful at the box office and earned critical acclaim, but experts on various aspects of U.S. national security policy during the early C…

  • The First U.S.-Based Soviet Nuclear Spy: The Saga of Clarence Hiskey and Arthur Adams

    Harvey Klehr, John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2023

    Years before anything was publicly disclosed about the nuclear espionage of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Theodore Hall, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Army Intelligence identified Clarence Hiskey, a Manhattan Project scientist, as a Soviet spy helping to provide highly sensitive nuclear weapons information. The two agencies kept watch on a Soviet intelligence officer, Arthur Adams, who was living illegally…

  • Informants by the Hundreds: FBI Penetration of the CPUSA

    Harvey Klehr, John Earl HaynesARTICLEAmerican Communist History2022

    Examination of the role of FBI informants in the Communist Party of the United States of America from its formation until the 1970s indicates that FBI recruitment of informants and penetration of the CPUSA was smaller during the Party’s heyday in the 1930s than during its decline after World War II and collapse in the 1960s and 1970s. FBI efforts to recruit informants produced a significant number of valuable assets and stoked Party paranoia

  • The Atomic Spy Who Never Was: “Perseus” and KGB/SVR Atomic Espionage Disinformation

    John Earl Haynes, Harvey KlehrARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    In the late 1980s and early 1990s the KGB and its successor SVR began a campaign to claim a large share of credit for the USSR’s development of an atomic bomb. Memoirs by KGB officers celebrated their service’s success in penetrating the American “Manhattan” project. As part of this campaign, in 1991, Vladimir Chikov, a serving KGB (later SVR) officer, published an article in Russian and English, followed by a full-length book in French (1996), G…

  • Framing William Albertson: The FBI's “Solo” Operation and the Cold War

    John Earl Haynes, Harvey KlehrARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2020

    William Albertson, who was executive secretary of the New York Communist Party and a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), was framed as an informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1964. Only in recent years have newly released FBI records enabled scholars to understand why the FBI undertook the operation and how much damage it did to the CPUSA. In 1964 two leaks from the FBI hinted that the b…

  • Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

    Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Harvey Klehr et al.BOOKSecret Cables of the Comintern,…2017

    Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the Stalinist ruling system during the years 1933 to 1943. New information on aspects of the People’s Front in France, civil wars in Spain and China, World W…

  • The Secret World of American Communism

    Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes et al.BOOKSecret World of American Communism2017Cited by: 17

    For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. By interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), one of the most controversial organizations in American public life. Heated debates about whether the Communist Party harbo…

  • David Alvarez and Eduard Mark. Spying through a Glass Darkly: American Espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945–1946

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    In Spying through a Glass Darkly: American Espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945–1946, David Alvarez and the late Eduard Mark note that “the intelligence history of the war [World War II] itself has been well studied, as has the early history of the Central Intelligence Agency after that agency’s creation in September 1947, but the immediate postwar period makes hardly an appearance in the many books and articles devoted to American espionage”…

  • Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2015

    Phillip Deery's Red Apple consists of five loosely connected vignettes: the surgeon Edward K. Barsky and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee; the popular writer Howard Fast and professors Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum; the composer Dmitri Shostakovich; and the lawyer O. John Rogge. Deery's archival research is impressive and his prose clear and happily free of the obscuring jargon marring too much scholarly writing.Deery sees his case studi…

  • A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2015

    Duncan Lee descended from the Lees of Virginia, two of whom (Richard Henry and Francis Lightfoot Lee) signed the Declaration of Independence. Another, Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III, was one of George Washington's leading cavalry officers. Most famous of all was Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia. Duncan in the 1930s attended Yale, became a Rhodes Scholar, and in 1939 joined the prestigious Wall Street law firm …

  • Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

    Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Harvey Klehr et al.BOOKSecret Cables of the Comintern,…2014

    Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the Stalinist ruling system during the years 1933 to 1943. New information on aspects of the People's Front in France, civil wars in Spain and China, World W…

  • Revising Revisionism: A New Look at American Communism

    Open AccessHarvey Klehr, John Earl HaynesARTICLEAcademic Questions2009

    Although the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) never became a major player in American political life, it was a significant participant in mainstream politics and the trade union movement in the 1930s and 1940s whose activities evoked tremendous passions among both supporters and opponents. It has also been the focus of sustained attention by historians. An online bibliography of scholarly writing about domestic American communism has more than 9,000 e…

  • Alexander Vassiliev's Notebooks and the Documentation of Soviet Intelligence Activities in the United States during the Stalin Era

    John Earl Haynes, Harvey KlehrARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2009Cited by: 1References: 3

    Alexander Vassiliev's notebooks with 1,115 pages of handwritten transcriptions, excerpts, and summaries from Soviet Committee on State Security (KGB) archival files provide the most detailed documentation available of Soviet espionage in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. This article discusses the provenance of the notebooks and how they fit with previously available Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files, KGB cables decrypted by the…

  • Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

    Harvey Klehr, Harvey E Klehr et al.BOOKVenona2008

  • Reconsidering Two Questions: On Arnesen's “No `Graver Danger'; Black Anticommunism, the Communist Party, and the Race Question”

    John Earl HaynesARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2006

    Research Article| December 01 2006 Reconsidering Two Questions: On Arnesen's “No `Graver Danger'; Black Anticommunism, the Communist Party, and the Race Question” John Earl Haynes John Earl Haynes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (4): 53–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2006-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Earl Haynes; Reconside…

  • Kathryn S. Olmsted, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2006

    January 01 2006 Kathryn S. Olmsted, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley John Earl Haynes John Earl Haynes Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Earl Haynes Library of Congress Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (2): 148–150. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws.200…

  • Lauren Kessler, Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley's Life in and Out of Espionage

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2006

    January 01 2006 Lauren Kessler, Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley's Life in and Out of Espionage John Earl Haynes John Earl Haynes Library of Congress Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Earl Haynes Library of Congress Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War Studies (2006) 8 (2): 148–150. https://doi.org/10.116…

  • John Haynes

    John Earl Haynes, John HaynesARTICLEWasafiri2006Cited by: 1

  • Mediation: Positive Conflict Management

    John Earl Haynes, John Haynes et al.BOOKMediation2004

  • The Historiography of American Communism: An Unsettled Field

    John Earl Haynes, John Haynes et al.ARTICLELabour History Review2003Cited by: 1References: 1

    Scholarly treatment of American Communism began in the late 1950s and 1960s. The ‘traditionalists’ argued that the Communist Party, USA, was subordinate to the Soviet Union, possessed a totalitarian ideology, and had no legitimate place on the democratic left. In the 1970s and 1980s a wave of ‘revisionist’ scholars presented a benign view of American Communism as a progressive force, stressed locally-oriented social histories, placed the movement…

  • The Cold War Debate Continues: A Traditionalist View of Historical Writing on Domestic Communism and Anti-Communism

    John Earl HaynesARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2000Cited by: 1References: 16

    This article reviews the huge Cold War-era and post-Cold War literature on American Communism and anti-Communism in the United States. These issues have long been the subject of heated scholarly debate. The recent opening of archives in Russia and other former Communist countries and the release of translated Venona documents in the United States have shed new light on key aspects of the American Communist Party that were previously unknown or un…