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03879aam a22003738i 4500 001 DF4C5A5E673211EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231010010145 008 210223s2021 ohu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021005745 020 $a 1606354256 020 $a 9781606354254 035 $a (OCoLC)1197850381 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TUU $d UIB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HV6762.U5 W45 2021 082 00 $a 363.2/336 $2 23 100 1 $a Welsome, Eileen, $e author. 245 10 $a Cold War secrets : $b a vanished professor, a suspected killer, and Hoover's FBI / $c Eileen Welsome. 263 $a 2105 264 1 $a Kent, Ohio : $b The Kent State University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 266 pages : $b illustrations ; 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a pt.1: Beginnings -- Crazy Billy -- Galya -- Thomas -- Behind the Iron Curtain -- Chicago -- Boulder -- pt.2: "Alive and well" -- Neighborhood watch -- Country cousins and socialites -- Gus -- Barbara -- "Bag of snakes" -- Making mud -- Sightings -- pt.3: The butterfly effect -- "H" bomb -- The Huston plan -- Thirty-six days -- The trial -- The smell of almonds -- pt.4: "What would the Russians think?" -- Torpedoes and submarines -- The fink -- Misspellings and murder -- The informant and the "useful idiot". 520 $a "Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a handsome man, with thick, graying hair and a wry smile. After his disappearance, the FBI and the CIA told local law enforcement and university officials that Riha was alive and well and had left Boulder to get away from his wife. But, as Eileen Welsome convincingly argues, Riha was not alive and well at all. A woman named Galya Tannenbaum, she concludes, had murdered him. Galya-a mother of four, a talented artist, and an FBI informant-allegedly went on to murder two more people in Denver as the trail to find Riha ran cold. Her weapon of choice? Cyanide. Galya was a chameleon, able to deceive businessmen and experienced investigators alike. But she had an Achilles' heel: she couldn't spell. She consistently misspelled words, such as "concider" and "extreemly." For the first time, Galya's signature misspellings are linked to documents once thought to be written by Riha and two other murder victims, as Welsome reexamines the facts and evidence of the case. She argues that these misspellings prove that Galya forged the documents and committed other murders. Her conclusion is buttressed by a wealth of additional information from police reports, depositions, and court testimony. During the Cold War era, the Riha case had an extraordinary ripple effect that reached even the highest levels of government. When the local district attorney in Colorado threatened to subpoena intelligence officials to find out who was behind the "alive and well" rumors, the CIA's representative in Denver claimed the information originated with the FBI. Director J. Edgar Hoover was infuriated by this assertion and actually cut off relations with the CIA. Presenting a compelling cast of characters in an era of intrigue and with astounding attention to detail, Eileen Welsome demonstrates why Galya Tannenbaum's alleged crimes continue to fascinate-even as her motivations remain mysterious"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Riha, Thomas. 600 10 $a Tannenbaum, Galya, $d 1931-1971. 610 10 $a United States. $b Federal Bureau of Investigation $x History. 650 0 $a Missing persons $x Investigation. 650 0 $a Cold War. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010022959.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF4C5A5E673211EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search