Title: Problems with the book
Product review: I read this book with interest, and then read a review that made me realize that Haynes and Klehr may have played a little fast and loose with some facts themselves. For example (taken from the review by Walter and Meriem Schnier), "when parts of Bentley's story are shown to be consistent with Venona, they are prepared to declare without any qualification that 'Elizabeth Bentley had told the truth.' They overlook the fact that the decoders of Venona used names and incidents from the FBI files to help make identifications and fill gaps - the very names and incidents that were often supplied in the first place by Chambers and Bentley." Their review, which can be found online ...doscuments numerous instances of sloppy interpretations and selective omission of facts. I suggest that prospective readers of this book read the full review for other examples of problems with the book's handling of material from Venona.
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