Alan Judd

The gripping story of the failed NKVD officer who fooled the FBI and the CIA

A review of Stalin’s Agent by Boris Volodarsky unearths many nuggets of gold about 20th-century Russian intelligence history

issue 21 February 2015
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  • Stalin’s Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov

    Boris Volodarsky

    OUP, pp. 789

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