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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945.
The only training she ever got as a spy was from her lover. But Elizabeth Bentley managed to manipulate the most feared secret police agency in the world—and intimidate the FBI.
Elizabeth Bentley (1908-1963) was an American communist and Soviet spy. She worked closely with Jacob Goros to manage the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) network of KGB sources and spies. In 1945, she defected and confessed her involvement with the KGB to the FBI.
Karin Tanabe discusses the true story of Elizabeth Bentley, the spy that inspired her characters in her recently released novel, A Woman of Intelligence.
During her years as an ex-communist Elizabeth Bentley published an autobiography, Inside the Russian Spy Organization, detailing her experiences in espionage. She died from heart disease in...
Elizabeth Bentley, unlike many ex-Communists, was a genuine spy whose accusations were largely corroborated. Her defection dealt a near-fatal blow to Soviet espionage in America, achieved with little help from J. Edgar Hoover or HUAC’s inveterate Red-baiters.
The U.S. Justice Department decided not to bring espionage charges because the cases came down to the word of a single witness, Elizabeth Bentley, a former Soviet spy and ex-Communist, against the denials of those she accused – with no documentary or other direct evidence of espionage.
