Lockhart Plot
b'The Lockhart Plot
Guest:\\xa0Jonathan Schneer,\\xa0Professor Emeritus of British History, Georgia Institute of Technology, and author of "The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin\\u2019s Russia"
The Lockhart Plot, if successful, would have resulted in the assassinations of Lenin and Trotsky and the establishment of an Ally-friendly regime in Russia. But this plot was a \\u201cturning point that failed to turn.\\u201d How would history have been different if they had succeeded?
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Stalin\'s Housewife Spy
Guest: Ben Macintyre, author of \\u201cAgent Sonya: Moscow\\u2019s Most Daring Wartime Spy\\u201d
Ursula Kuczynski, or Agent Sonya, was one of Moscow\\u2019s most brilliant spies throughout WWII and the Cold War. While raising three children, Ursula secretly passed blueprints for the atomic bomb to the Russians. MI5 never caught her because nobody could believe that \\u201cMrs. Burton\\u201d could get around to stealing nuclear secrets when she was so busy baking scones.'