Feklisov, Alexandre. Confession d'un Agent Soviétique. Paris: Éditions du Rocher, 1999. Feklisov, Alexander, and Sergei Kostin. Intro, Ronald Radosh. Tr., Catherine Dop. The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: Memoirs of the KGB Spymaster Who Also Controlled Klaus Fuchs and Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Enigma, 2001.
Commenting on the French-language edition, Kiracofe, AFIO WIN 24-99 (18 Jun. 1999) and Intelligencer 10.2, notes that Feklisov served as the case officer for both Julius Rosenberg (1943-1946) and Klaus Fuchs (1947-1949). The author "reveals significant details concerning his long career in Soviet intelligence, including a definitive presentation of the Rosenberg case.... There are also accounts of the successful exfiltration to the Soviet Union of Rosenberg colleagues Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant." Feklisov "includes much interesting commentary" about the Fuchs case. According to the reviewer, the author's "comments on his behind-the-scenes contacts, via John Scali, with the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis are particularly interesting."
Haynes, I&NS 17.3, finds that, with regard to the Rosenbergs, Feklisov "corroborates, fills in gaps, or fleshes out the story told in Radosh and Milton's The Rosenberg File." Feklisov is, however, "detailed and candid only in regard to Julius Rosenberg and the impressively large network of Communist engineers that Rosenberg brought into espionage. He describes other sources and agents, but in vague terms." For Unsinger, IJI&C16.3, Radosh's introduction is "an interesting critique of Feklisov's revelations." However, Radosh "gives the impression that the entire book was about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, but it is about far more than them alone."
See also, Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, "Retired KGB Spymaster Lifts Veil on Rosenbergs," Washington Times, 19 Mar. 1997, A1, A6.
Goodman, Michael S.
1. "Grandfather of the Hydrogen Bomb? Klaus Fuchs and Anglo-American Intelligence." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 34, no. 1 (2003): 1-22.
2. "Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Opened Pandora's Nuclear Box." BBC History Magazine (Feb. 2007), 38-42.
3. "Overview: Sir Michael Perrin's Interviews with Dr. Klaus Fuchs." In Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State, eds. R. Gerald Hughes, Peter Jackson, and Len Scott, 123-132. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
4. "Santa Klaus? Klaus Fuchs and the Nuclear Weapons Programmes of Britain, the Soviet Union and America." Prospero: The Journal of British Rocketry and Nuclear History 1, no. 1 (Apr. 2004): 47-70.
5. "Who Is Trying to Keep What Secret from Whom and Why? MI5-FBI Relations and the Klaus Fuchs Case." Journal of Cold War Studies 7 (Summer 2005): 124-146.
6. and Chapman Pincher. "Research Note: Attlee, Sillitoe and the Security Aspects of the Fuchs Case." Contemporary British History 19, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 67-78.
Lamphere, Robert J., and Tom Shachtman. The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story. New York: Random House, 1986. New York: Berkley, 1986. [pb] New Ed., with Post-Cold War Afterword. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1995. [pb]
Petersen calls The FBI-KGB War "a particularly revealing first-hand account of counterintelligence operations in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s." Miller, IJI&C 1.3, agrees, finding it a "masterful presentation of the reality of counterespionage activities," and "strongly recommends" it.
To Powers, NYRB (13 May 1993) and Intelligence Wars (2004), 295-320, the book is the "best account of th[e] still fragmentary story [of the Venona material].... Lamphere's book adds much important information to the stories of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,... Klaus Fuchs,... and of the Soviet spy ring which included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Kim Philby."
Cram says Lamphere tells the "story about breaking the KGB ciphers during World War II and the resulting consequences of that achievement in the struggle against Soviet espionage and subversion." This "otherwise excellent history" is marred by the "egregious error" of accepting Pincher's tagging of Hollis as a Soviet agent. The author discusses Hoover's "vengeful actions" against the early CIA and liaison with it. "Although this book has a few errors and the story has perhaps been gilded a bit by Lamphere, it nevertheless remains one of the best histories of US counterintelligence."
According to Surveillant 4.4/5, the 1995 edition includes a 27-page Afterword where Lamphere "reviews the KGB-FBI wars using the latest releases from KGB and U.S. archives." Commenting in an article published in 2003, Robarge, Studies 47.3/fn.4, says that this "remains the best book on the FBI and counterintelligence."
For a report on some of the difficulties Lamphere experienced in publishing his book, see George Lardner, Jr., "Ex-Agent's Spy Book Tests Secrecy," Washington Post, 27 Oct. 1977, A1.
Moorehead, Alan. The Traitors: The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952.
According to West, I&NS 19.2/277, Moorehead was fed "sanitised versions of MI5's files on Allan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo..., thus ensuring The Traitors provided a less than accurate version of the atomic spies."
Moss, Norman. The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. London: Grafton, 1987. Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. New York: St. Martin's, 1987.
Cosslett, I&NS 3.4: "If one merit of a biography is the extent to which it deals with why, as well as how its subject did the deed, then these two books [Norman Moss and Robert Chadwell Williams] both rank highly."
Trahair, Richard C.S. "A Psychohistorical Approach to Espionage: Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988)." Mentalities 9, no. 2 (1994): 28-49. [Calder]
Williams, Robert Chadwell. Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
For Powers, NYRB (9 Jun. 1994) and Intelligence Wars (2004), 63/fn. 5, this is the "best account of the Fuchs case." Petersen says this "is a valuable scholarly treatment of Fuchs and the Fuchs case." Cosslett, I&NS 3.4: "If one merit of a biography is the extent to which it deals with why, as well as how its subject did the deed, then these two books [Norman Moss and Robert Chadwell Williams] both rank highly."
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