STALIN’ S AGENT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ALEXANDER ORLOV

Book ID/图书代码： 12100014B75836

English Summary/英文概要： This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told.

It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin’s most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious ’Cambridge Five’. Escaping Stalin’s purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin’s death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin’s Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973.

But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: ’General Alexander Orlov’ never actually existed. The man known as ’Orlov’ was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his ’flight’ from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The ’Orlov’ story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War.

In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind ’Orlov’ for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, it is a story that many people in the world’s intelligence agencies would almost definitely prefer you not to know about.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 但是整个有关于Orlov的故事被颠覆了，恐怕连最具想象力的侦探小说家都难以相信：根本就没有“Alexander Orlov将军”这个人。名叫“Orlov”的人实际上出生于Leiba Feldbin，他是斯大林的忠仆和间谍Philby的上司，却从来没有当过苏联国家安全委员会的将军，也没有从苏联逃往西方国家。他一直是一名忠诚的苏联特工，直到去世。现在人们普遍知道的有关于“Orlov”的故事大部分是由苏联国家安全委员会编造的，从冷战结束一直存留到现在。

这部严谨的全新传记由前苏联情报官员Boris Volodarsky撰写，首次讲述了“Orlov”背后的真实故事。这是一部有关俄罗斯情报和骗局的传奇故事，横跨了列宁时代和普京时代。世界各国的情报机关并不希望你了解这个真实的故事……

这本书揭开了苏联国家安全委员会的弥天大谎，这个谎言直到今天才真相大白。很多人并不希望真相公布于众。

这是一个有关Alexander Orlov将军的故事，他是斯大林在西班牙内战期间最宠信的侍从，也是英国间谍、叛徒以及臭名昭著的“剑桥五杰”之一 Kim Philby的上司。为了逃离斯大林的“大清洗”运动，Orlov在20世纪30年代后期移居美国，并常年居住在地下室中。斯大林死后，他才敢在自己的畅销书《斯大林肃反秘史》中公开身份，从此之后他成为了苏联最有名的逃兵。很多人以他的事迹为写作题材，高度赞扬他。1973年，美国国会还为他的死亡举行了纪念仪式。（LNL）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Boris Volodarsky于1955年生于俄罗斯。完成大学学业后，他加入了苏联军队，担任格勒乌“阿尔法特种部队”军官（军事情报部队、特种作战部队），后来成为一名秘密情报员，对20世纪80年代美国对苏联的一次核突击行动的准备情况进行紧急侦查。改革开始时，他离开了苏联，现在为风险管理公司和国际私人风险分析提供咨询服务。Volodarsky博士任教于斯坦福大学，还是国际学术联合会（WAIS）的一名成员，他的文章和访谈记录经常在国际媒体上发布。此外，他还创作了许多其他有关于苏联情报史的书籍，包括最新出版的《KGB’s Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko》（2009）。

Boris Volodarsky was born in Russia in 1955. After receiving his university diploma, he was drafted into the Soviet army as a GRU Spetsnaz officer (military intelligence, special operations) and later trained as an undercover intelligence operator, at a time in the 1980s when Soviet intelligence services were on alert to watch for US preparations for a surprise nuclear attack against the USSR. He left the Soviet Union with the onset of glasnost and perestroika and now works as a consultant for international private risk analysis and risk management companies. A member of the World Association of International Studies (WAIS) at Stanford University, Dr Volodarsky’s articles and interviews are regularly published in the international media and he is the author of a number of other works on Soviet intelligence history, including most recently The KGB’s Poison Factory: From Lenin to Litvinenko (2009).

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