# The Lost Spy

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- Book: [The Lost Spy](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-meier/the-lost-spy) ([The Lost Spy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-meier/the-lost-spy.md))
- Authors: [Andrew Meier](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-meier)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-9785-656-6
- Published: 2010-12-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A dramatic story of secrets, espionage, murder and cover-ups - the most important Cold War spy story for a generation. 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 KGB and the FBI - a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. THE LOST SPY at last reveals the truth: Oggins was one of the first Americans to spy for the Soviets. Based on six years of international sleuthing, THE LOST SPY traces Oggins's rise in beguiling detail - a brilliant Columbia University graduate sent to run a safe house in Berlin and spy on the Romanovs in Paris and the Japanese in Manchuria - and his fall: death by poisoning in a KGB laboratory.