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5 unusual facts about Elizabeth Bentley


Bela Gold

This is a 350+ page file describing allegations against the Golds (and many other people) by Elizabeth Bentley (code name Gregory).

Elizabeth Bentley

Hoover advised Sir William Stephenson, head of British Security Coordination for the Western hemisphere, of Bentley’s defection, and Stephenson duly notified London.

Lauren Kessler

She is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.

Rae Elson

By May 1945, Elizabeth Bentley had several messages with Soviet contacts communicated through Elson.

William Henry Taylor

William Henry Taylor (30 March 1906 – January 1965) was a Canadian-born US Treasury economist accused by Elizabeth Bentley of having been a Soviet spy.


Jenny Levy Miller

Elizabeth Bentley, part of the Soviet Golos spy ring, identified Jenny Miller as one of her covert Soviet contacts.

Peter Rhodes

Joseph Katz repeatedly pressed Elizabeth Bentley to track down Rhodes through his Belgian wife residing in New York City.


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