The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors

by Eric Breindel, Herbert Romerstein

Release Date: October, 2001

Edition: Paperback

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Soviet Spies and US Traitors

Over the years there has been a vast array of books about Soviet espionage and its American helpers: Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Harry Dexter White, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, and so many more.

No matter the evidence, some members of the US press and intelligentsia refused to come to grips with the truth and admit that some of their great liberal heroes were actually agents of Stalin.

Herbert Romerstein's book proves once and for all that they were all guilty as charged. During the Second World War the United States intercepted and decoded secret soviet radio transmissions from Moscow to their agents in America. Using these documents, and materials from Soviet archives, Romerstein narrates the incredible story of just how deeply KGB agents penetrated the American government to its highest levels.

Romerstein's encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, based on years of research and study, puts the entire tragic story into historical pespective and makes fascination reading. If you are going to buy just one book of history this year, this is it!

Dude, where's my evidence?

Here's an example of the quality of work you'll find in this book:
P.140: "Romerstein (the author) pointed out that (Alger) Hiss was an agent not of KGB (NKVD) but of military intelligence (GRU).
P.512: (Regarding the Order of the Red Star) "Several NKVD agents who served in the United States during the war received this honor, including...Alger Hiss.
So which is it, guys? Please try to keep your unsubstantiated accusations straight.
The whole point of this book is to establish that the Verona Secrets (material from the Soviet Archives) prove the guilt of many of those accused of spying in the United States on behalf of the U.S.S.R.
So, according to the authors, the Verona Secrets "are the details of the spying activities" of Hiss and others.
Here is the one and only thing the authors provide in reference to Verona and Hiss:
1. One of the transcripts indicates that an agent known as "Ales" had attended the Allied Conference at Yalta in 1945 and had then flown to Moscow.
2. Hiss had been at the Yalta Conference and then flown to Moscow.
3. Therefore, (p.136) "one sees clearly that "Ales" was Alger Hiss.

Sorry guys, Hiss was innocent, but you can keep trying if it makes you happy.