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The secrets we kept3/18/2023 ![]() When Henry gained the upper hand in a coat closet, he sexually assaulted her. Sally allowed her romantic emotions to cloud her judgement during her New Year’s Eve assignment. Irina accepted Teddy’s marriage proposal, but soon after, she and Sally had a sexual encounter. Teddy secured a promise of the original Russian manuscript from English secret agents. Sally’s next assignment entailed obtaining a copy of Doctor Zhivago from Feltrinelli’s publication party in Italy, where she was discreetly handed a business card. The latter completed her training to become a secret double, and soon, they spent personal time with each other. The State required Boris to sign a telegram to Feltrinelli requesting he return the manuscript.Īt the close of 1957 in the West, Irina first met and became inspired by Sally. Olga met with the agent to stop publication outside of the USSR to no avail. Two years prior in the East, an aspiring Italian literary critic convinced Boris to give Feltrinelli, an Italian publisher, the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago. began their propaganda scheme to leak Doctor Zhivago into the USSR. Soon, the USSR successfully launched Sputnik, and the U.S. Teddy insisted they cover their time spent training with a romantic relationship. She moved closer to him in the country and later sent her children to live with her mother in Moscow.įrom February to fall of 1957 in Washington, D.C, Irina passed her test to become a double for the Soviet Russia Division of the Agency. After her release, Olga assumed the responsibility of advocating for Doctor Zhivago, especially when Boris finished the novel. Alas, he changed his mind again and continued the affair. He expressed this to Olga’s daughter and refrained from meeting Olga at her arrival as promised. Boris, depressed without Olga yet tempted by the simplicity of his married life, decided not to continue the affair. She found hope in words written by Boris and those she composed, ultimately remaining faithful in his love for her. She recorded her experience as a letter to her former interrogator, detailing the physical, mental, and emotional toll. In the East, from 1950 to 1953, Olga performed hard labor in the Gulag. She acknowledged missing the thrill of working for the Agency as a secret double and agreed to work for them again. Meanwhile, Sally reunited with her former colleagues from the war. ![]() They observed Irina before engaging with and eventually befriending her. The typing pool felt disrespected by their male superiors and formed strong bonds with each other. He divulged that her father was killed by State officials just before emigrating with her mother from Russia-not at the Gulag as she had been told-and she was offered a different job. Despite scoring low on the application test, Anderson called her for an interview. In the West, in Fall 1956, Irina applied as a typist for the Soviet Russia Division. After losing their unborn child, she was sentenced to time in the Gulag. Interrogated nightly, Olga fondly remembered meeting Boris and beginning their affair four years earlier. Her crime was “expressing anti-Soviet opinions of a terroristic nature,” specifically in the form of supporting Boris Pasternak’s new novel, Doctor Zhivago (16). In the East in 1949, Olga was taken from her mother and two children in Moscow and imprisoned in the Lubyanka. Many women assigned a typist position had served in World War II for The Office of Strategic Services (OSS). They were expected to be extensions of their typewriters, but the women were privy to much more than the men were aware of. The Secrets We Kept began with a prologue from the typists in the Soviet Russia Division of the U.S. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Prescott, Lara.
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