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Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 19411945. By Bradley F. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. ISBN 0-7006-0800-1. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. xix, 307. $35.00.
Declassification of World War II intelligence documents over the last two decades has led to major historical reassessments and the virtual creation of a new field in wartime scholarship. For the most part, however, the literature has focused on the role of intelligence in military campaigns and AngloAmerican intelligence cooperation. Similar cooperation with the Soviet Union has been all but ignored on the grounds that it was nearly nonexistent, and/or that the inability to research relevant Soviet documents made historical analysis impossible. In Sharing Secrets with Stalin, Bradley F. Smith challenges both of these contentions. Despite his inability to obtain access to Soviet military files, he maintains that recently declassified AngloAmerican documents make possible a history of intelligence sharing with the USSR and reveal a substantial level of cooperation.
Well-known for his previous intelligence studies,...