‘The old Soviet Union infiltrated hundreds of young men and women in to Western universities to acquire intelligence – such “sleepers” are still active today working for Putin’s Russia. Svetlana Lokhova looks in detail at the role of Stanislav Shumovsky who in 1931 enrolled as a student at the US MIT and helped to acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project. Well worth a read is her ‘The Spy Who Changed History’’ Keith Simpson MP for Iain Dale Recommends

‘[A] big, ambitious book … There was a chink of light towards the end of Yeltsin’s time, but Putin slammed the door shut on researchers … Few have prised it open again, even an inch. Lokhova … is one of those who have – and that is the strength of her book. It contains original material in a genre of retreads’ Giles Whittell, The Times

‘A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties … remarkable’ Telegraph

Svetlana Lokhova is Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a leading historian of Soviet intelligence. She has worked for many years with Professor Christopher Andrew and is overseeing translation of the Mitrokhin archive in Cambridge. The Spy Who Changed History is her first book.