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November 9, 2018 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby

Sky News in the UK reports that the mayor of the Russian capital has ordered that an intersection be named after the member of the Cambridge Five spy ring: Moscow has named a square after the notorious British double agent Kim Philby. The Russian capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, ordered the renaming of an intersection close […]

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May 25, 2018 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Monument Placed by Nazis Sits Quietly in Tennessee Cemetery

Given the controversy in our country today over Civil War related Confederate statues and monuments I thought you might find this article interesting. I was fortunate enough to help the author, Dan Jackson, by offering some background  on the Nazi Bund movement in the United States before the Second World War. Monument Placed by Nazis […]

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April 16, 2018 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Inside The International Manhunt For Martin Luther King Jr.’s Killer

It was one of the largest criminal investigations in the history of the bureau, no question. I was interviewed by ABC News on the FBI’s hunt for James Earl Ray: Inside The International Manhunt For Martin Luther King Jr.’s Killer (ABC News) Thousands of FBI agents spent months hunting down every lead looking for Martin […]

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December 3, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Fascinating tale of CIA mole Karel Koecher

There is a new documentary film out on Karel Koecher, a KGB mole who worked in the CIA. The spy who spoke on camera (Radio Prague) One of the hottest tickets at this year’s Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival was main competition film RINO, a fascinating portrait of the only Communist mole known to have […]

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November 21, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Looking back at a previous refugee crisis

I was interviewed by Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald who wrote an article about a previous time the US refused to let refugees in: 1939 ‘Voyage of the Damned’ raises questions about treatment of Syrian refugees (Miami Herald) It would become known, with heartbreak and infamy, as the Voyage of the Damned. Seventy-six years […]

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July 15, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The Kidnap Racket: E.J. Connelley and the Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping

This historical article by Brian Hunt recently appeared in The Grapevine, a publication of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI: The New York Times called it “the greatest manhunt in the history of the Northwest.” On May 24, 1935, nine year-old George Weyerhaeuser was kidnapped in Tacoma, WA. Eight days later, he returned safely […]

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March 5, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

From the “Grapevine” – ABSCAM

This historical article by John Good about “ABSCAM” was recently published in the January/February 2015 issue of “The Grapevine,” a publication of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. Abscam …One of the FBI’s most famous political corruption cases did have was some of the finest undercover and investigative agents I have ever […]

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January 30, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Ex-FBI Agent Says Secret Russian Facility in NY Infiltrated by Intelligence

(Sputnik) The FBI infiltrated into Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) facility in New York while investigating an alleged spy ring broken up this week and intentionally made it public, a former FBI counter-intelligence official told Sputnik after reviewing documents related to the case. “The remarkable detail contained in the document indicates the FBI had some […]

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October 29, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis

(New York Times) In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of […]

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October 17, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The Witness

David Greenglass

By Ray Batvinis In his fiery summation to the jury the defense counsel accused the witness of a most vile form of treachery charging that “any man who will testify against his own flesh and blood, his own sister, is repulsive, is revolting.” The chief prosecutor, in turn, calmly took an opposite view. The witness […]

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October 15, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Espionage Threatened the Manhattan Project, Declassified Report Says

(New York Times) In December 1945, four months after atomic bombs brought an end to World War II, the United States Army published a secret report on security surrounding the Manhattan Project, the vast government effort that developed them. Finally declassified last month by the Department of Energy, the report concludes that the project was […]

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October 15, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

David Greenglass, central figure in Cold War atomic spy case, dies at 92

(Washington Post)  David Greenglass, confessed member of the infamous Rosenberg atomic spy ring, died July 1 at 92, more than a half-century after his better-known sister, Ethel Rosenberg, went to the electric chair in part for what he later claimed was his false testimony against her. The death was confirmed by Sam Roberts, a New […]

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October 9, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The Congressman Who Spied for Russia: The strange case of Samuel Dickstein

(Politico) . . . .The authors also revealed that Stalin had a spy in Congress, an exasperating character who once “blazed up very much, claiming that if we didn’t give him money he would break with us,” according to his Soviet contact. To this day, Sam Dickstein is the only known U.S. representative to have […]

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September 25, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The quiet death of America’s worst spy

(The Week Magazine) Chief Warrant Officer John A. Walker, who died in federal prison late last month at the age of 77, was the most consequential spy in American history. Over the course of seven years, from 1967 to 1975, he turned over some of the country’s most significant military secrets to the Soviet Union. […]

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September 15, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Still guilty after all these years

(New York Post) Feisty and probably still with a warm spot in her heart for the Soviet cause, Miriam Moskowitz, 98, is trying to clear her name of a six-decade-old conviction. Too bad she was guilty. She was only a bit player on the fringes of the “atom spies” scandals that gripped the nation in […]

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September 8, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Secrets of Alaska’s Secret Agents

(AP) Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the military, newly declassified Air Force and FBI documents show. Invasion of Alaska? Yes. It […]

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June 9, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Benson House’s wartime role as LI espionage post remembered

From Newsday: June 7, 2014 7:14 PMBy TED PHILLIPS  Vicki Jean Johnson’s parents never told her they came to Wading River to help fight the Nazis. The retired middle-school teacher knew her father, Donworth Drew Johnson, had been on the trail of America’s most wanted during his dozen years in the FBI. But it was a […]

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June 6, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Long Island Home’s Secret Role in WWII Espionage Revealed

By Joe Valiquette |  Friday, Jun 6, 2014  |   NBC4 New York  | Link Since the end of World War II many stories have surfaced about the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to deceive the Germans and Japanese about Allied troop movements, invasion plans and atomic research. But only recently has the world […]

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June 2, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Secret WWII FBI radio transmission location featured in Batvinis book

FBI agent Richard Millen, who set up the Benson House radio site in Wading River. The Benson House was an isolated FBI radio transmission location, where agents pretended to be Nazi spies during World War II. (Credit: Suffolk County Historical Society)

Wading River retreat house was FBI disinformation operation in World War II Originally published: Newsday, May 31, 2014 By ROBERT E. KESSLER  robert.kessler@newsday.com Article as it appeared in print: Newsday-Spies-Next-Door-1JUN14 (.pdf) These days, Benson House, located on a scenic, waterfront bluff 150 feet above Long Island Sound in Wading River, is a retreat house and office on the grounds of […]

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