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'The most formidable spy in history' Ian Fleming
'A superb biography ... More than a hundred books have been written about him and this is undoubtedly the best' Ben Macintyre
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist – and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy.
Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets – his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. His intelligence regarding Operation Barbarossa and Japanese intentions not to invade Siberia in 1941 proved pivotal to the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war.
Never before has Sorge's story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives – along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge – to rescue the riveting story of the man described by Ian Fleming as 'the most formidable spy in history'.
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An Impeccable Spy Richard Sorge Stalin Master Agent edition by Owen Matthews Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
- for the fist third of it wanted to rip the pages out of my as the ultimate dry fact-history. And yet as it moved to Sorge's spy network in 1940 per-war Japan it became a real grabber. Recognized internationally, after his death, as a masterful spy for Russia it is a story to be told.
- Richard Sorge has been one of the most unusual and formidable spies in the annals of espionage. The collapse of the Cold War has has caused the fall of the barriers of an endless nuber of archives throughout the world and especially in the former Eastern European theater. It gave historians and researchers achance to examine the rple intelligence played in the Cold War and the era before it. Enter Owen Matthews , who made use of the Russian archives to write a fascinating book about Sorge ,incorporating into it unknown materials about the famous spy.
Sorge was the son of a German father and a Russian mother. He was born in 1895. After the First World War, and after witnessing the slaughter and butchery on the Eastern front, he became a Communist and for a living worked as a foreign correspondent. In a short time he was employed in the services of the Fourth Directorate of Stalin , a body which was the father of the KGB. Sorge's career as a spy started in Shanghai, and it is there where Sorge would serve as a spy for comrade Stalin and the Comintern.But this was the place that would serve as a springboard for the real targer Russia that
was interested in Japan. Sorge would serve as a super spymaster in Tokyo for nine years, , where he managed to steal the most secret military and polotical secrets not only of Japan, but also those of Germany as well.Sorge's best friend in Tokyo was Eugen Ott, the Nazi ambassador to Japan. This man spoke regularly to Hitler and knew about hitler and his staff's intentions regarding the various polcies toward the Far East and Europe.Sorge's top Japanese agent was Hotsumi Ozaki, who was a member of the Japanese cabinet advisory coicil and who supplied Sorge with so mush vital information which was sent to the Ceter in Moscow.
Sorge was both an idealistic communist and a cynical liar in the service of the Communist revolution. He was a drunk, a womanizer who bedded at leat thiry women (most of them agents who worked for him) and among them the wife of the German ambassador , Helgo Ott, and was often undisciplined who liked to take great risks in his life by crashing cars and motorcycles. He bragged that he was destined to be the carrier of superior knowledgeand a champion of the working class, albeit the fact that he has always complained of being a lonely person. Deception was the name of his game. He deceived everyone-his friends, lovers and even himself.
The msot known fact about his work was that it was he who warned Stalin about Hitler's intention to invade Russian in the summer of 1941, yet Stalin did not care and the Russian leader's chief of intelligence , General Golikov, dismissed Sorge's reports (and not only his). The Russian archives reveal in great detail insights into Sorge's private world in the form of his letter he sentto his Russian wife, Katya, and in the memoirs and correspondence of his Moscow friends
and colleagues. It is worth adding that Sorge had an immense appetite for books and was an intellectual
There were thousands of messages of accurate intelligence which he and his trusted friend Clausen sent to the Fourth Directorate, meaning to Stalin, via a radio-receiving station in Vladivostok which were almost all ignored or not taken seriously. However, one thing was noticed by his masters that Japan was unwilling to start any invasion of Siberia- a fear that somehow was a relief for Stalin who was horrified about the idea of fighting a war on both fronts the East and in Europe.
How was Sorge caught? By accident, and as a result of a remark made by one of his Japanese colleagues,which led to the exposre of the transmitter engaged to send messages to Moscow. This in October, 1941. Despite his hopes that Russia would save him, his hoped were dashed and Sorge was executed in 1944, after making af ull confession not before saying his fianl words"The Red Army! The Soviet Communist Party!".
In the 1960s and the 1970s Sorge's adulation came to life , and the Communists extelled Sorge's personality and heroic deed which were praised repeatedly. Thus ,Sorge, who wanted to become a singer, eneded up in the pantheon of Soviet spy saints (althogh his grave is in Tokyo).
This book, which has 21 chapters-each one describing another aspect of Sorge and his times- is not only well researched, but introduces the reader to hitherto unknown territories about a spy whose Japanese prosecutor said that he had never before met anyone as great as he was. The book , written by a master historian for more than four years, reads like a super- thriller and is packed with an abundance of information.
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