The surprising Story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.
Barnes lives in Houston, Texas..
His first book, Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen , was published by the University Press of New England.
He was trapped in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the short Story he wrote about the experience was awarded a William Faulkner Gold Medal.
About author(s): Barnes Carr was for many years a journalist for daily newspapers in Mississippi, Memphis, Boston, Montreal, New York, New Orleans, and Washington, D.
C.
A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the true beginning of the Cold War, The Lenin Plot tells the shocking Story of this untold episode in American hiStory in fascinating and striking detail.
The result was thousands of deaths, both military and civilian, on both sides.
Consul General in Moscow, and other State Department operatives a free hand to pursue their covert action Against Lenin.
As he ordered a military invasion of Russia, he gave the American ambassador, the U.
S.
The Lenin Plot had the "entire approval" of President Woodrow Wilson.
After that, leaders in Washington, Paris, and London aimed to install their own Allied-friendly dictator in Moscow as a means to get Russia back into the war effort Against Germany.
It remains the most audacious spy plot in American history--a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and mount a coup in Moscow Against Soviet dictator Vladimir Ilich Lenin.
The surprising Story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin
