Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- SHANGHAI, 1935-TOKYO, 1945-NEW YORK, 1950 -- OCCUPATION RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS -- SORGE TRIAL PARALLELS CANADIAN ESPIONAGE CASE -- THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. SANDERS ALIAS GEROLD ECKELMAN -- WASHINGTON NEGOTIATES FOR RELEASE OF REPORT: 1948 -- PART ONE: THE SORGE SPY RING -- THE ORIGINAL TOKYO REPORT: FAR EAST ESPIONAGE -- Richard Sorge, Head of the Spy Ring -- Russian Communist Party Dominates Comintern -- Richard Sorge in Shanghai -- Agnes Smedley, American Soviet Spy -- Ozaki Hozumi, Sorge's Major Assistant -- Max Klausen, Sorge's Radio Operator -- Sorge Organizes His Ring in Japan -- Sorge Establishes Cover -- Branko de Voukelitch, Yugoslav Communist -- Miyagi Yotoku, Artist and Spy -- Early Days of the Ring in Tokyo -- Sorge's Intelligence Targets -- Precautions Used by Sorge Ring -- Sorge's Personal Views on Espionage Operations -- Liaison Between Members of the Spy Ring -- Klausen Comes to Japan -- Guenther Stein, British Journalist -- The Japanese Agents: Rings within Rings -- Lesser Rings of Ozaki and Miyagi -- Funakoshi Hisao, China Operator -- Kawai Teikichi, China Adventurer -- Mizuno Shige, High Caliber Spy -- Koshiro Yoshinobu, Soldier Turned Traitor -- Kuzumi Fusako, Female Communist -- Kitabayashi Tomo, the Weak Link -- Akiyama Koji, the only Mercenary -- Yasuda Tokutaro, Medical Informant -- Kawamura Yoshio, Shanghai Contact -- Yamana Masazane, Agrarian Expert -- Taguchi Ugenda, Minor Informant -- Nakanishi Ko, Postwar Diet Member -- COMMUNICATIONS AND FINANCE -- CODES AND CIPHERS -- INTERNATIONAL REPORTS OF SORGE AND OZAKI -- DISCOVERY, IMPRISONMENT, DEATH -- Ito Ritsu-Unwitting Judas -- Days of Anxiety -- Sorge's Uneasy German Friends -- The Japanese Police Records -- Sorge's Defense -- Ozaki Is Hanged -- Sorge Follows Ozaki.

Conclusions and Deductions -- PART TWO: RICHARD SORGE'S OWN STORY AND KLAUSEN'S TESTIMONY -- RICHARD SORGE'S OWN STORY: PARTIAL MEMOIRS -- "MY PAST HISTORY AS A GERMAN COMMUNIST" -- GENERAL NATURE OF SORGE'S GROUPS IN JAPAN AND CHINA -- THE COMINTERN AND THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY -- "MY CONTACTS WITH MOSCOW AUTHORITIES" -- "MY ESPIONAGE GROUP IN CHINA, 1930-32" -- "ESPIONAGE OF MY GROUP IN JAPAN: 1933-41" -- GENERAL REMARKS ON EFFICIENCY -- THE NAZI PARTY IN TOKYO -- THE DUTCH COLONY IN TOKYO -- GERMAN NEWSPAPERMEN IN JAPAN -- FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS -- THE DOMEI NEWS AGENCY AND JAPANESE JOURNALISTS -- THE WAR MINISTRY -- MY STUDY IN JAPAN -- PRACTICAL VALUE OF MY INVESTIGATIONS -- MY STUDY OF JAPAN AS LEGITIMATE COVER -- EXTRACTS FROM KLAUSEN'S INTERROGATION -- PART THREE: AGNES SMEDLEY AND THE WAR DEPARTMENT -- ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS THE SORGE STORY -- DAMAGING EFFECT OF THE WASHINGTON REPUDIATION -- A FAKE SUIT FOR LIBEL: WILLOUGHBY ACCEPTS -- COLUMNISTS' ATTACKS ON TOKYO INTELLIGENCE -- WORLDWIDE COMMUNIST PRESS RALLIES IN SUPPORT OF SMEDLEY -- THE TRUTH ABOUT AGNES SMEDLEY -- OPINIONS OF AMERICAN, BRITISH, AND JAPANESE LAWYERS -- PART FOUR: THE SHANGHAI CONSPIRACY -- SHANGHAI: THE LINK WITH TODAY -- SHANGHAI POLICE FILES CONFIRM SORGE RECORDS -- AMERICAN COMMUNISTS IN CHINA -- GUENTHER STEIN AND THE INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS -- THE JAPAN BRANCH OF THE INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS -- EARL BROWDER: AMERICAN COMMUNIST IN CHINA -- EUGENE DENNIS, ALIAS PAUL EUGENE WALSH -- THE CASE OF HILAIRE NOULENS, ALIAS PAUL RUEGG -- THE COMINTERN APPARATUS AND SHANGHAI AFFILIATES -- KREMLIN INTERNATIONAL MASTER FRONTS -- MOPR AND ITS AMERICAN TENDRILS -- BRILLIANT EXPOSÉ IN THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, FEBRUARY, 1950 -- THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS CONGRESS -- IURW -- CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNIST FRONTS -- CONCLUSION -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.