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Stalin's Secret Weapon : Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII
出版Biteback, 2011
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralHistory / Military / Intelligence & EspionageHistory / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern FrontHistory / Russia / GeneralPolitical Science / Intelligence & Espionage
ISBN18495410869781849541084
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CJCeuAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"St. Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2012 . Foreword by Nigel West. SMERSH, an acronym of the Russian phrase 'Death to Spies', is primarily known to readers in English as James Bond's sinister opponent in Ian Fleming's spy novels. Yet SMERSH was a real organization and was just as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. No information was available on this super-secret organization until the fall of the Soviet Union, and its importance to Second World War history is almost completely unknown to scholars and history readers alike. Ostensibly a military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, SMERSH spent considerable time and effort terrifying its own servicemen, including author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was arrested for writing a letter to a fellow officer. Its activities also often strayed into the political sphere, exemplified by the arrests of many political leaders and foreign diplomats in Eastern Europe, including the famous rescuer of Hungarian Jew, Raoul Wallenberg, at the end of the Second World War. While it was formally part of the Defence Commissariat, SMERSH was not under the control of the military hierarchy. In reality it was a secret service independent of the other Soviet security organizations, the NKVD and NKGB. Its head, Viktor Abakumov, a shadowy and powerful figure whose biography is revealed here for the first time, reported directly to the dictator Joseph Stalin on a daily basis. Based on a huge number of documents and memoirs available only in Russian, the book details all the known activities of SMERSH - its clever 'radio games', which used captured German officers to lure German intelligence into traps, its mass vetting of Soviet troops who had been prisoners of the Germans, its arrest and persecution of Red Army generals, its infiltration of Nazi spy schools, its participation in military tribunals and the 'Special Board' of the NKVD, and its participation in the Nuremberg trials and the 'Sovietization' of Eastern Europe. Now, after ten years of research, a critical missing piece of the history of WWII and the Soviet secret services is finally exposed to the light of day."--publisher.