"Based upon Previously Secret KGB records, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States throughout the 1930s, World War II, and the early Cold War. Historian Allen Weinstein, author of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case, and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB agent-turned-journalist, were provided unique access to thousands of classified Soviet intelligence dispatches that documented the KGB's success in acquiring America's most valuable atomic, military, and diplomatic secrets. The Haunted Wood narrates the triumphs and failures of Soviet operatives and their American agents during the 1930s and 1940s, describing as well the compelling human dramas involved." "Several chapters provide major new accounts from Moscow's own record of its relations with Alger Hiss and atomic spies Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, and Julius Rosenberg, among others, along with fresh information on Soviet espionage in the United States by British agents for the Kremlin - Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Harold "Kim" Philby." -- Book jacket.

pt. 1.Burden of innocence: the New Deal years -- ch. 1. Communist romantics, 1: the reluctant Laurence Duggan -- ch. 2. Creating the Soviet networks: Hiss, Chambers, and early recruits -- ch. 3. Love and loyalties, 1: the case of Martha Dodd -- ch. 4. Communist romantics, 2: the exuberant Michael Straight -- ch. 5. Love and loyalties, 2: Elizabeth Bentley and Jacob Golos -- ch. 6. Double agent/Hollywood hustler: the case of Boris Morros -- ch. 7. "Crook": a Soviet agent in Congress -- pt. 2. Third front: Soviet espionage in the Second World War -- ch. 8. Harvest time, 1: the silvermaster network in wartime Washington -- ch. 9. Atomic espionage: from Fuchs to the Rosenbergs -- ch. 10. Harvest time, 2: The Perlo group -- ch. 11. OSS and NKGB: penetration agents -- ch. 12. Harvest time, 3: Hiss, Glasser, and warning signs -- pt. 3. Discovery: Cold War confrontation -- ch. 13. Flight from exposure, 1: the Washington sources -- ch. 14. Flight from exposure, 2 : the atom spies.