New Milford, Connecticut - People from New Milford, Connecticut, Elizabeth Bentley, Roger Sherman, Housatonic Range Trail, Canterbury School (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: People from New Milford, Connecticut, Elizabeth Bentley, Roger Sherman, Housatonic Range Trail, Canterbury School, Candlewood Lake, Buck's Rock, New Milford High School, Samuel B. Ruggles, Charles H. Marsh, Gaylordsville, Charles H. Ruggles, Schaghticoke Middle School, Still River, Lover's Leap Bridge, Candlelight Farms Airport, 7th Connecticut Regiment, Housatonic Railroad Station, Solmous Wakeley, J. S. Halpine Tobacco Warehouse, East Aspetuck River. Excerpt: Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 - December 3, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets. When her testimony became public in 1948, it became a media sensation and had a major effect on the popular anti-communism of the McCarthy era. Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was born in New Milford, Connecticut to Charles Prentiss Bentley, a dry-goods merchant, and May Charlotte Turrill, a schoolteacher. In 1915 her parents had moved to Ithaca, New York, and by 1920 the family had moved to McKeesport, Pennsylvania and then to Rochester, New York. Her parents were described as strait-laced old family Episcopalian New Englanders. She attended Vassar College, graduating in 1930 with a degree in English, Italian, and French. In 1933, while she was attending graduate school at Columbia University, she won a fellowship to the University of Florence. While in Italy, she briefly joined a local student Fascist group, the Gruppo Universitate Fascisti. Under the influence of her anti-Fascist faculty advisor Mario Casella, with whom she had an affair, she soon moved to another part of the political spectrum, however. While completin...