The Truth-Spiller

Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, by Kathryn S. Olmsted (North Carolina, 288 pp., $27.50)

ON November 7, 1945, Elizabeth Bentley walked into the New York office of the FBI. She emerged after eight hours of interrogation, having signed a 31-page statement that implicated some 80 people in Soviet espionage—including U.S. government officials Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Duncan Lee, and Maurice Halperin. Bentley would eventually become known to the whole country as a star witness before congressional investigating committees and at trials of Communist leaders.

About the Author

Ronald Radosh

Mr. Radosh, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and a contributing opinion columnist at the Daily Beast, is a co-author of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War and the author of Commies: A Journey through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left.

Featured Tags

Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, by Kathryn S. Olmsted (North Carolina, 288 pp., $27.50)

ON November 7, 1945, Elizabeth Bentley walked into the New York office of the FBI. She emerged after eight hours of interrogation, having signed a 31-page statement that implicated some 80 people in Soviet espionage—including U.S. government officials Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Duncan Lee, and Maurice Halperin. Bentley would eventually become known to the whole country as a star witness before congressional investigating committees and at trials of Communist leaders.

About the Author

Ronald Radosh

Mr. Radosh, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and a contributing opinion columnist at the Daily Beast, is a co-author of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War and the author of Commies: A Journey through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left.