In Stalin's Secret Service
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"During the World War, the German General Staff even had a Bureau known as the "Disinformation Service ." Here experts worked out seemingly plausible secret military plans and orders, which were then "planted" as authentic documents in the enemy's hands . Sometimes even war prisoners would be found in possession of secret plans so cleverly concocted by the Bureau of Disinformation as to convince the captors that they were inside plans." --In Stalin's Secret Service (1939), page 234 |
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In Stalin's Secret Service (1939) is a book by Walter Krivitsky.
With the help of journalist Isaac Don Levine and literary agent Paul Wohl, Krivitsky produced an inside account of Joseph Stalin's underhanded methods. It appeared in book form as In Stalin's Secret Service (UK title: I Was Stalin's Agent), published on November 15, 1939, after appearing first in sensational serial form in April 1939 in the top magazine of the time, the Saturday Evening Post. (The title had appeared as a phrase in an article written by Reiss's wife on the first anniversary of her husband's assassination: "Reiss... had been in Stalin's secret service for many years and knew what fate to expect.") The book received a tepid review by the very influential New York Times.
Violently attacked by the American left, Krivitsky was vindicated when the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which he had predicted, was signed in August 1939.
