Isaiah Oggins (also known as Ysai or Cy) (July 22, 1898, Willimantic, Connecticut, United States - Summer 1947, Moscow, USSR) was an American-born communist and spy for the Soviet secret police. After working in Europe and the Far East, Oggins was arrested, served eight years in the GULAG detention system, and was summarily executed on the orders of Joseph Stalin.
Read more about Isaiah Oggins: Early Life, Soviet Underground Espionage, Detention, Arrest, Imprisonment, and Death, FBI Investigation, Joint Russian-American Investigation, Wife's Later Life and Death
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“There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 48:22.
Repeated in Isaiah 57:21.