1st Edition

Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War

By John Chapman Copyright 2020
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Sorge’s activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator and the Soviet Union’s GRU (Soviet military intelligence unit) as the optimum of spy-masters. Although it was unusual for a great deal of inside knowledge to be obtained from the Japanese side, most attention has always been paid on the German side to the roles played by... Read more
Chart: Organization of the People’s Commisariat for the Defence of the USSR, 1941 Preface, Introduction, Abbreviations, List of Illustrations, 1 ‘All is Not Well in the Camp of the Axis Powers’ 2 ‘In the Matter Affecting Ambassador Ott’ 3 The Purge of German Journalists 4 ‘Expressions which are Psychologically Dangerous’ 5 The Bifurcation of Intelligence in Retrospect, 1929–1937 6 The Bifurcation of Intelligence in Retrospect, 1937–1941 7 Conclusions, Select Bibliography, Source Materials, Index of Persons, Index

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John W. M. Chapman