Inventory of the Andrew Meier papers
Finding aid prepared by Supriya Wronkiewicz
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
© 2009
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Stanford University
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Title: Andrew Meier papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-2007
Collection Number: 2010C16
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(6.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection primarily consists of research materials for Andrew Meier's book
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York, 2008). This research material includes correspondence and notes; photocopies of correspondence and of genealogical
and biographical data; photocopies of investigative, consular and other government documents; and printed matter. The bulk
of the research materials directly relate to Soviet espionage in the United States and elsewhere, and especially to the case
of Isaiah Oggins.
Creator:
Meier, Andrew
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2010.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Andrew Meier papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
| 1985 |
B.A., Wesleyan University |
| 1989 |
B.A. (M.A.), Russian Language and Literature, Oxford University |
| 1989-1992 |
Freelance writer |
| 1989-Present |
Contributor to periodicals, including
Harper's,
New Republic,
New York Times Magazine,
National Geographic,
Orion,
Outside,
Washington Post,
Wired, and
Time
|
| 1995-1996 |
Contributor, Pacific News Service, San Francisco, California |
| 1996 |
Reported from Afghanistan |
| 1996-2001 |
Moscow correspondent,
Time magazine
|
| 2001-2002 |
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. |
| circa 2003-Present |
Writer in residence, Assistant Professor at Eugene Lang College, New York, New York |
| 2003 |
Author,
Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
| 2005 |
Author,
Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict (contains excerpts from
Black Earth) (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
| 2008 |
Author,
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York: W.W. Norton)
|
Honors include Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow; Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers & Scholars at the New York
Public Library; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Alicia Patterson
Foundation Fellow
Sources:
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2010. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2010. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
"Andrew Meier - Assistant Professor" Eugene Lang College Faculty.
The New School for Liberal Arts. n.d. Web. 24 August 2010.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection primarily consists of research materials for Andrew Meier's book
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service (New York, 2008). This research material includes correspondence and notes; photocopies of correspondence and of genealogical
and biographical data; photocopies of investigative, consular and other government documents; and printed matter. The bulk
of the research materials directly relate to Soviet espionage in the United States and elsewhere, and especially to the case
of Isaiah Oggins.
Materials of note in the collection include the detailed genealogical and biographical data Meier compiled regarding Isaiah
Oggins and his family (
Oggins family related materials ) as well as Meier's detailed research on Oggins' contemporaries and incidents relating to the Communist Party in the United
States. The original order of the materials has been maintained.
Related Materials
David Dallin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
John Hook papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Herbert Solow papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Sam Tanenhaus papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Secret service -- Soviet Union
Espionage, Russian -- United States
Espionage, Russian
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Oggins, Isaiah
Oggins family related materials
circa 1917-2005
Scope and Contents note
Consists of Meier's research specifically pertaining to Isaiah Oggins, his family, and colleagues as well as correspondence
between Meier and Oggins' son Robin and Robin's correspondence regarding Isaiah. Arranged as follows: Correspondence, Family
documents, and Clippings.
Correspondence
2001-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes letters to Meier and Robin Oggins related to Freedom of Information Act requests regarding his father
box 1, folder 1
Beardsley, Tom
2001, 2005
Family documents
circa 1917-2004
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence to Meier and Robin Oggins's correspondence related to Freedom of Information Act requests regarding
his father
box 1, folder 3
Oggins, David and Anna
1917-2004
box 1, folder 4
Oggins family related documents
1930-2001
Scope and Contents note
Also includes Meier's notes and related correspondence
box 1, folder 5
Oggins family related legal documents
1919-2005
box 1, folder 6
Oggins family related copies of photographs
circa 1910s-1920s, undated
box 1, folder 7
Oggins, Robin notebooks and related materials
1922, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials in Chinese and Russian
box 1, folder 8
Isaiah Oggins in United States press
1992
box 1, folder 9
Isaiah Oggins in Russian press
1992
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
Research documents by location
1917-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes clippings, articles, hand written notes, and correspondence related to Meier's research, arranged by country or repository
of the research materials' origin. The bulk of the materials are photocopies.
box 1, folder 10-11
Berlin, Germany
1930-2004
box 2, folder 1-2
Columbia University
1917-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes related correspondence
box 2, folder 3
Federal Bureau of Investigation
1943-1957, 2003
Scope and Contents note
Includes information regarding Nerma Oggins
box 2, folder 4
France
1931-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes related correspondence. In French
box 2, folder 5
Library of Congress
circa 1920s
box 2, folder 6-8
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park
1922-2004
Scope and Contents note
Includes copies of documents from the Moscow consular files, notes, and related correspondence. Includes materials in Russian
box 3, folder 1
NARA Index Bureau
1920-1922
box 3, folder 2
NARA, Washington, D.C.
1995-2003
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and copies of NARA finding aids
box 3, folder 3
National Security Agency museum, "Mask Cables,"
1934-1935, undated
box 3, folder 4-8
New York Public Library and Yale University
1917-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes separate notes. Some materials in Russian
box 3, folder 9
Russian State Military Archive (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv [RGVA]) fond 18444
1939-1940
box 3, folder 10-11
Switzerland
1931-1955
Scope and Contents note
Some documents in German and French
box 4, folder 2
Yale University Archives
1989-1990
Research documents by subject
1917-2007
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, articles, notes, and correspondence related to Meier's research, arranged by subject, author, or title.
The bulk of the materials are photocopies.
box 4, folder 4
Arcos Limited raid
1927, undated
box 4, folder 5
Art Student League
1927-1930
Scope and Contents note
Includes information regarding Irwin Shapiro and Donald McKay
box 4, folder 7-8
China and Japan
1934-2006 undated
box 4, folder 9
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1991
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials in Russian
box 4, folder 10
Crouch, Paul
undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes
box 5, folder 2
Dallin, David papers
circa 1924-1954
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and research from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
box 5, folder 3
Dallin, David papers
1930s, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes materials in Russian and research from New York Public Library
box 5, folder 4
Dozenberg, Nicholas
1921-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and related correspondence
box 5, folder 5
Duff, William
2000
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence collected by Meier
box 5, folder 6
Ehrmann, H.M.
1924-1927, 1990s-2000s
box 5, folder 7
Eisler, Gerhart, Ruth Domino, and Angela Haden-Guest
1947-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes research notes
box 5, folder 8
Eitingon, Motty
1919-1988
box 5, folder 9
Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Relations, The Soviet Union 1933-1939,
1952
box 5, folder 10
Gottlieb, Edward
1938-2004
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence
box 5, folder 11
Graebner, Walter
1942
Scope and Contents note
Consists of cablegrams
box 5, folder 12
Granich, Max and Grace
1936-1993
box 5, folder 13
Hammerstein, Kurt von
1933-2006
Scope and Contents note
Includes documents in German
box 5, folder 15
Hook, John
1927-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes
box 6, folder 1
Josephson, Matthew and others
1917-2005
box 6, folder 2
"The Faking of Americans" by "Karl,"
undated
box 6, folder 3
Kennan, George
1946, 2001
box 6, folder 4
Keynes, John Maynard, undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes King College's finding aid for the John Maynard Keynes papers
box 6, folder 5
Kovno and Lithuania
1909-2002
box 6, folder 7-9
Krivitsky, Walter G.
1939-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes
box 6, folder 10
Lengyel, Tanja
2000
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence in Hungarian [?]
box 6, folder 12
Litton, Frederick S. articles
1994-2001
box 6, folder 13
The Lusk Committee, 1992-2002.
Scope and Contents note
Includes finding aids and background information regarding the Lusk Committee, formally known as the Joint Legislative Committee
to Investigate Seditious Activities, 1919-1920
box 7, folder 1-5
The Lusk Committee
1916-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes information regarding the Rand School
box 7, folder 6
Maironski
1993-2005
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 7, folder 7
Martin, Charles, and Steinberg, Max
1931-2007
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence and documents in French and Russian
box 7, folder 8
McCargar, James interview
1995 April 18
box 8, folder 1
Naito-Uchimura, Misao
circa 1990s-2001, undated
box 8, folder 2
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs)
1939
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 8, folder 7-10
Rakov brothers
1927-1996
Scope and Contents note
Includes documents in German and Russian as well as notes by Markus Wehner regarding the Rakov brothers
box 8, folder 11
Rand School
1919-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence, materials generated by the Rand School and materials regarding the Rand School
box 9, folder 1
Rand School, "A History of the Rand School of Social Science, 1906-1956" by Frederic Cornell
1976
Scope and Contents note
Master's thesis for New York University
box 9, folder 2
Robinson case
1938, undated
box 9, folder 3
Rosenberg, Arthur
undated
box 9, folder 4
Rossi, Jacques
1979-2002
Scope and Contents note
Includes some materials in French
box 9, folder 5
The Rote Kapelle: The CIA's History of Soviet Intelligence and Espionage Networks in Western Europe, 1936-1945
1979
box 9, folder 6
Shanghai Municipal Police file
1933
box 9, folder 7
Shapiro, Irwin
1931-2006
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and correspondence
box 9, folder 9-11
Solow, Herbert
circa 1937-2003, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes
box 9, folder 12
Stevens and others
1951-2005
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence and notes
box 9, folder 13
Sudoplatov, Pavel Anatol'evich
1997-2004, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and documents in Russian
box 10, folder 1
Svobodnaia mysl'
1998
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 10, folder 2-5
Tanenhaus, Sam
1929-1992, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes and some documents in Russian
box 10, folder 6
Task Force on Russia documents
1937-2007
box 11, folder 1
Wallenberg, Raoul
1946, 2001
box 11, folder 2
Weinstein, Allen, "The Hiss Labyrinth: Seven Profiles,"
1997
box 11, folder 3
Whitney, Richard Merrill
1924
box 11, folder 4
The Worker and other related documents, 1922-1940
Scope and Contents note
The Worker includes articles written by Nerma Berman, Isaiah Oggin's wife
box 11, folder 5
World Tomorrow,1920, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes notes
Oversize file
1940, undated
Scope and Contents note
Includes a map of Berlin and photocopied research material regarding Walter G. Krivitsky from 1940.
box 12, folder 1
Krivitsky, Walter G., related materials
1940
