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Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945. Bradley F. Smith. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xx, 307 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0800-1.)
Bradley F. Smith has written a persuasive, well-documented, and lively account of the Anglo-American-Soviet intelligence relationship in World War II. Although he was not permitted to examine Russian archives, he has made good use of an impressive array of Western sources. He reveals a relationship that transcended doubts, distrust, and petty jealousies to facilitate a voluminous and vital exchange of information.
Shortly before the Nazi invasion of Russia in June 1941, the British began to provide the Soviets with information on Germany derived from ULTRA, the secret code-cracking process. Yet British representatives were often reluctant to share without getting something in return. With Russians soon dying daily before the...