The fabricated charges in the show trials organized by Stalin since 1948 in the people's democracies of Eastern Europe relied on the connections of the US citizen Noel Field. For the first time, authentic testimonies from Field's pre-trial detention and his struggle for rehabilitation are being published. These are extensive political and autobiographical statements that impressively characterize the man and the era, his anti-fascist work during wartime, and the relentless machinery of the Cold War. The commentary by Bernd-Rainer Barth reveals a whole decade of intelligence history.