Article: The Truth-Spiller.(Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley)(Book Review)

Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, by Kathryn S. Olmsted (North Carolina, 288 pp., $27.50)

On November 7, 1945, Elizabeth Bentley walked into the New York office of the FBI. She emerged after eight hours of interrogation, having signed a 31-page statement that implicated some 80 people in Soviet espionage-including U.S. government officials Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Duncan Lee, and Maurice Halperin. Bentley would eventually become known to the whole country as a star witness before congressional investigating committees and at trials of Communist leaders.

Today, she is hardly remembered. To the extent that she exists in the current ...

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