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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. Until her defection, the FBI had relegated Soviet spying to the back burner and had devoted most of its attention to the ...
“The real Elizabeth Bentley had been a strong woman who defied limits, laws, and traditions,” writes Kathryn Olmsted at the conclusion of her 2002 biography, Red Spy Queen. “She deceived and ...
The successful concealment of Venona from the Soviets trumped the need to prosecute their now defunct agents, thanks, in part, to the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley. 1 Kathryn S. Olmsted, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002, p. 3. 2 Ibid., p. 204. Kelberer 3 Background Elizabeth ...
Elizabeth Bentley was born on January 1, 1908 in New Milford, CT. Her father was a dry-goods merchant and her mother was a school teacher. As a child, her family moved around the Northeast before settling in Rochester, New York. Bentley attended Rochester’s East High School, and in 1926, she won a scholarship to attend Vassar College. She graduated from Vassar with a degree in English ...
Out of Bondage. In 1934, Elizabeth Bentley came home from Fascist Italy to an America still shattered by the Depression. Like countless others, she was drawn to the anti-Nazi rhetoric of the Communist Party. This hypnotic book is her detailed and intimate story of how she joined the Communist Party and rose to become a key Soviet agent in New ...
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. She flirted with Italian fascism after graduating from Vassar and then, during the Depression, drifted into ...
