Your essay on how you came to make this site is very well written .

One of the people documented on your site is Solomon Adler– who would have been the tenth in a line of rabbis from father to son. His grandparents, R Shlomo and Goldie{Gelfand} Adler [of Kletzk] are my great-grandparents. He was my father’s first cousin. For a time they were both working in Washington DC — and Solomon Adler told my father what he was doing and had already done. He was not working for Russia. He was working to help Chou En-lai make a better revolution in China. He had met Chou En-lai when Chou visited England in he early 1920’s — when Shlomie Adler was a young teenager — about 14 years old. This young Shlomie resolved to apply himself to help Chou– and the Chinese People –to “make a better world”. I would like to write to you directly if possible — and to send you some things that I have written — particularly about the pre9/11 Taliban. Meanwhile, I hope you will provide better links to the actual documents that you cite in your footnotes — at least footnotes 1 and 2 for Solomon Adler. Shalom, A. S. Adler , Jerusalem

Documentstalk punctures many myths. I advise anyone interested in finding out what is fact and what is fantasy in the shadow world of spying before and during World War II to read it carefully.

(The writer is author of “East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart” (1997); “My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin” (2005))

(The writer is author and/or editor of “The Empire of the GRU” (1999); “The Encyclopedia of the Military Intelligence of Russia; The Encyclopedia of the Foreign Intelligence of the USSR”; and many other volumes)

(The writer is Historian of the International Monetary Fund and author of “The IMF and the Force of History: Ten Events and Ten Ideas That Have Shaped the Institution”; “The Case Against Harry Dexter White: Still Not Proven,” and many other volumes)

Keep it all going. It is marvelous source of information – all those biographies, etc.!

(The writer is the author of “Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover- ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain” (2009); “Too Secret, Too Long” (1984); “Their Trade Is Treachery” (1981); and many other volumes)

(The writer is an adjunct professor, Indiana University, teaching intelligence history after a career at the CIA)

(The writer is the author of “How The Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies” (2005))

(The writer is a retired Colonel, KGB Foreign Intelligence)

(The writer is a retired Colonel, KGB Foreign Intelligence)