Barth, Bernd-Rainer, and Werner Schweizer, eds. Der Fall Noel Field: Schlüsselfigur der Schauprozesse in Osteuropa [The Case of Noel Field: Key Figure in the Show Trials in Eastern Europe]. Berlin: BasisDruck Verlag, 2005. Includes DVD, Noel Field -- Der erfundende Spion [Noel Field -- The Fictitious Spy], a documentary film directed by Werner Schweizer, in German, French, and English.
Fischer, IJI&C 22.2 (Summer 2009), believes that this "meticulously documented history" will "stand as the final word on this Cold War mystery."
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Toledano, Ralph. "The Noel Field Story." American Mercury
80 (Apr. 1955): 5-8.
Petersen: "Soviet agent in State Department, League of Nations, and relief organizations in Europe, 1930-1940s."
Lewis,
Flora. Red Pawn: The Story of Noel Field. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. The Man Who Disappeared: The Strange History of Noel Field.
London: Arthur Barker, 1965.
Constantinides: This is a "fine study" that puts "Field and his activities for the Soviets and OSS in proper perspective and at the right level of importance" -- that is, "a minor figure who played a negligible role."
Steven, Stewart. Operation Splinter Factor. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.
Constantinides finds this story of U.S. perfidy against the Soviet Union "quite unreliable," and calls it "one of the worst books to appear in years in the field of intelligence; no time need be spent on it." For Fischer, IJI&C 22.2/343-345 (Summer 2009), this is a "specious account." The book is "replete with factual errors," and its basic thesis "is sheer nonsense."
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