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What an eye-opener! I read this book one winter weekend in 2019 while researching early Soviet espionage in America to learn about the plan that Stalin and Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky set into motion in the U.S. in the 1930s.Ā It reveals how trained Soviet spies were planted as students at American universities that ranked high in science educationāstarting with MIT.
As a model, Shumovsky earned a bachelorās degree at MIT, joined professional societies to mingle with respected scientists, and focused his masterās degree on āhigh altitude flying,ā sending mounds of information back to the USSR. However, it was notā¦
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