Elizabeth Bentley was not the perfect spy, notes historian Kathryn S. Olmsted. Weak on tradecraft, Bentley was an alcoholic given to indiscreet behavior. Yet, for a time, she handled the handlers. She ...
The timing couldn’t be better for “Red Sparrow” to sweep into theaters with its story of a Russian spy and an American spy trying to outwit one another. As one character in the thriller declares, “The ...
In August 1945, a 37-year-old woman named Elizabeth Bentley walked into the FBI office in New Haven, Conn., and announced that she was a Communist spy who controlled a vast network of agents operating ...
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