Stalin's American spy : Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European show trials / Tony Sharp.

"Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index.

'The strong sense of "otherness"', 1904-1934 -- Serving the cause, 1934-1941 -- 'Crowning achievement', 1941-1949 -- The march of events -- Staging the Rajk trial, 1949 -- Time of trials, 1949-1953 -- The ghosts return.