Lost Spy

For half a century the case of Isaiah Oggins a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin s orders remained hidden in the secret files of the Soviet and American intelligence services a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. It surfaced briefly in 1992 when Boris Yeltsin handed over a dossier to the White House but the full story of what happened remained a mystery. After eight years of international sleuthing Andrew Meier at last reveals the truth in The Lost Spy Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets.