Noel Field
American spy (1904-1970) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 66
Noel Haviland Field was an American diplomat who was accused of being a spy for the NKVD. His name was used as a prosecuting rationale during the 1949 Rajk show trial in Hungary, as well as the 1952 Slánský show trial in Czechoslovakia. Much controversy surrounds the Field story.
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Ignatz Reiss, Field's ultimate superior in the GRU during the 1930s![Jewish youth liberated at Buchenwald lean out a train marked Hitler kaput ("Hitler [is] finished") en route to an OSE home in Ecouis, France.](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Buchenwald_Children_26149.jpg/500px-Buchenwald_Children_26149.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Jewish youth liberated at Buchenwald lean out a train marked Hitler kaput ("Hitler [is] finished") en route to an OSE home in Ecouis, France.
Field's War Department ID card, 1946
Noel Field's former home in Sashegy, Budapest (Vécsey mansion)
Noel Field's tomb in the Farkasréti Cemetery, BudapestAbout this person
In 2015, the historian David Talbot reignited claims that Field was set up by Allen Dulles in order to create paranoia designed to undermine the Soviet Union.
