Barnes Carr
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".
Barnes Carr is an American journalist, historian, and author of fiction who has studied the history of US—Russia espionage, influence operations, and covert military actions.
He was a journalist for daily newspapers in Mississippi, Memphis, Boston, Montreal, New York, New Orleans, and Washington D.C., and was awarded the Faulkner Gold Medal for fiction for his short story, "Needle Man".[1][2]
His 2020 research into the US-led 1918 assassination attempt on Lenin, "sometimes reads like history, sometimes like a spy novel", and has been called "a well crafted exposé that suggests that the Cold War began half a century earlier than we've been told."[3]
Known by the press at the time as the Lockhart—Reilly plot, after two of its principal agents, other historians have called it the Ambassadors Plot. Following Carr's extensive research into government archives and primary sources, he reveals that U.S. Secretary of state Robert Lansing initiated the plot[4] after Lenin seized power in October 1917 and removed Russia from the World War I. Spymaster and U.S. Consul General of Moscow DeWitt Clinton Poole employed Xenophon Kalamatiano as his main field officer.
President Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy was publicly opposed to interference, but he told Lansing the Moscow coup had his "entire approval".[4] In addition to instigating an attempted coup d'état, they laundered money through the British and French to send American troops under British Command by General Edmund Ironside in Operation Archangel, part of the North Russia intervention, an Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Published Works[edit]
- Carr, Barnes (2016). Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen. University Press of New England. pp. 11–13. ISBN 978-1-61168-939-6. Search this book on
- Carr, Barnes (2020). The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia. Pegasus Books. ISBN 978-1-64313-317-1. Search this book on
Notes and References[edit]
- ↑ Carr 2020, Back flap.
- ↑ "Barnes Carr". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ↑ Carr 2020, Back Coverby Kirkus Reviews
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Carr 2020, preface.
- "The Lenin Plot". Kirkus Reviews. 6 October 2020.
- Maria Lipman (February 2021). "The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia". Foreign Affairs.
- Sebestyen, Victor (6 October 2020). "Did the U.S. Try to Assassinate Lenin in 1918?". New York Times Book Review.
- Barnes Carr (21 September 2020). "Who Was Behind the Allied Plot to Depose Lenin?". History Hit.
- "The Lenin Plot: The Concealed History of The US-Led Effort to Overthrow the USSR". History News Network. 10 November 2020.
  | This article about an American journalist is a stub. You can help EverybodyWiki by expanding it. |
This article "Barnes Carr" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Barnes Carr. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
