Steven T Usdin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6745395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven T Usdin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven T |
| FAMILY NAME | Usdin |
| SIGNATURE | USDIN S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Steinhauser (Czechia) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reexamining East-West Intelligence Operations during the Cold War
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…
The Face of Soviet Espionage in the United States during the Stalin Era: Vladimir Pravdin, “Man of Truth”
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 In…
The First Counterspy: Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole by Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut
In August 1943 the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, received an anonymous letter describing Soviet intelligence operations in the United States. Written in Russian, the letter identified Soviet foreign intelligence officers by name and bizarrely asserted that they were secretly funneling information to Japan and Germany. Both the FBI and the Soviet government eventually learned that the letter had been …
The Rosenberg Ring's Continued Impact
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven Usdin Steven Usdin, a veteran journalist, has been Senior Editor of BioCentury, Washington, D.C., since 1995, and is responsible for coverage of public policy issues. He has written for a wide variety of publications about the interaction of science and public policy, national security, and Cold War espionage history. The author of Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Foun…
The Rosenberg Ring Revealed: Industrial-Scale Conventional and Nuclear Espionage
New evidence from the KGB's archives reveals that Julius Rosenberg's espionage ring was larger and caused more damage to U.S. security than has been previously understood. Rosenberg's prosecution centered on his recruitment of David Greenglass to spy on the Manhattan Project. Notes smuggled out of Moscow by Alexander Vassiliev show that Rosenberg also recruited Russell McNutt as a nuclear spy. The Rosenberg ring's primary contribution to the USSR…
Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
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Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
The Rosenberg Ring Revealed: Industrial-Scale Conventional and Nuclear Espionage
New evidence from the KGB's archives reveals that Julius Rosenberg's espionage ring was larger and caused more damage to U.S. security than has been previously understood. Rosenberg's prosecution centered on his recruitment of David Greenglass to spy on the Manhattan Project. Notes smuggled out of Moscow by Alexander Vassiliev show that Rosenberg also recruited Russell McNutt as a nuclear spy. The Rosenberg ring's primary contribution to the USSR…
The Rosenberg Ring's Continued Impact
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven Usdin Steven Usdin, a veteran journalist, has been Senior Editor of BioCentury, Washington, D.C., since 1995, and is responsible for coverage of public policy issues. He has written for a wide variety of publications about the interaction of science and public policy, national security, and Cold War espionage history. The author of Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Foun…
The First Counterspy: Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI’s Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole by Kay Haas and Walter W. Pickut
In August 1943 the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, received an anonymous letter describing Soviet intelligence operations in the United States. Written in Russian, the letter identified Soviet foreign intelligence officers by name and bizarrely asserted that they were secretly funneling information to Japan and Germany. Both the FBI and the Soviet government eventually learned that the letter had been …
The Face of Soviet Espionage in the United States during the Stalin Era: Vladimir Pravdin, “Man of Truth”
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 In…
Reexamining East-West Intelligence Operations during the Cold War
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…
Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Espionage (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Cold war (2 works) · Communism (2 works) · History (2 works) · 20th century (1 works)