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