A brief research communication

ABSTRACT

This research communication adds important information to William Murphy's biographical portrayal of Lydia Stahl, a prominent Soviet spy in the United States and Western Europe in the pre-WWII period.

KEYWORDS:

• Intelligence history
• Soviet Union
• spies

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ William T. Murphy, “Lydia Stahl, secret life, 1885-?” Journal of Intelligence History 18, no. 1 (2019): 38–62.

² Шталь Лидия Георгиевна, (1885) “[Stahl Lydia Georgievna (1885)],” Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, https://ru.openlist.wiki/Шталь_Лидия_Георгиевна_(1885) (accessed on 5 October 2020).

³ Murphy, “Lydia Stahl, secret life, 1885-?” 62.

⁴ Ibid., 53.

⁵ Ibid., 40, 42.

⁶ Ibid., 59–61.

⁷ See “Справка: Статья 58 УК РСФСР [Explanation: Article 58 of CC RSFSR],” https://ru.openlist.wiki/Справка:Статья_58_УК_РСФСР (accessed on 5 October 2020).

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Filip Kovacevic

Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. He has lectured and taught at the universities across Europe, the U.S., the Balkans, and the former USSR, including two years in Russia. His recent publications include “The FSB Literati: The 1st Prize Winners of the Russian Federal Security Service Literature Award Competition, 2006-2018,„Intelligence and National Security 34:5, 637-653 and “Intelligence Services in Kazakhstan„ in Bob de Graaff, ed. Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East (2020). He is a board member of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE).