The Unsolved Disappearance of a Soviet Spy
Juliet Stuart Poyntz threatened to expose Stalin’s regime. Then she vanished.
Espionage is dangerous.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz knew that when she began spying on behalf of the Soviets. If the American government discovered that she’d been working for a foreign government, she’d have been executed for treason. So why did Juliet agree to spy on her own country?
Juliet was a founding member of the Communist Party of America. She believed that capitalism was immoral and that a truly equal society only could be achieved via marxism. She was a middle-aged widow with no children. If she was discovered to be a spy, she had no immediate family at risk.
Juliet was willing to risk her life for the ideology she believed in.
There were many other American-born communists who worked on behalf of the Soviets. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were a married couple who were executed in 1953 because of espionage.
What makes Juliet’s story unique is that no one knows what happened to her.
She went missing in 1937. There is a lot of speculation about her disappearance, but no concrete evidence. Was it foul play? Did she disappear on her own accord?
