Stalin's Infiltration of FDR Inner Circle

Stalin's Secret Agents â?? The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government was written by two experienced authors and recognized authorities on the Cold War, M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. Evans is a veteran journalist and former broadcaster, as well as the author of Blacklisted by History (2009), a biography of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other momentous books. Romerstein was the former head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the U.S. Information Agency and a congressional staffer of the House Intelligence Committee. These two men have collaborated in writing a magnificent and shocking exposé that has been crying out for exposure â?? to inform as well as to correct and augment the incomplete and distorted historic record, not to mention reveal the true moral Stalin's Secret Agentsstanding of a number of Americans who betrayed the nation for a perverted and venal ideology based on lies.

The importance of this book is that it not only exposes the penetration of the U.S. government by full-fledged Soviet spies but also documents the subversion by communist "agents of influence" subservient to Stalin and the USSR high up in the FDR administration. This is a inimical tale of repeated betrayals that needed to be told well, and the authors of this book have done a magnificent job in telling it, writing in an enthralling narrative with crisp and succinct prose. Evans and Romerstein document how these "agents of influence," which the West always considered innocent "idealists" (although not so by the KGB, which knew them for what they were, valuable Soviet agents), did as much if not more damage than full-fledged foreign spies by overtly or covertly influencing government policy from the highest levels in the U.S. government. In the case of FDR, they were, as the book documents, operating under the aegis of the President himself. Indeed, FDR had surrounded himself and suffused the executive branch of government with communists, Soviet agents, and "fellow travelers," who did untold damage to the nation and the world.