Foreword / Stalin's Intelligence Game: Playing the United States and Japan against Each Other -- Operation Snow -- The War Years -- Nuclear Furies: A Love Affair and a Storm of Controversy -- Opening VENONA -- Truman Wrestles an Ogre Named VENONA -- VENONA Hits Pay Dirt -- Cases of the Century -- The Fifties -- The Beginning of the End of the Soviet Empire -- The Secrets of Khrushchev's Memoirs -- The Overflight Wars -- Deception and Revelation -- Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward.