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John Scott (1912–1976), was an American writer who worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The OSS was the predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Scott was alleged to be working for Soviet intelligence. Scott was the son of conservationist and peace activist Scott Nearing and Nellie Marguerite Seeds Nearing. Scott migrated to the Soviet Union in 1932 and worked for many years in Magnitogorsk. Scott married Mariya Ivanovna Kikareva and the two came to the United States in 1942. Scott wrote Behind the Urals: An American Worker in... MORE

John Scott (1912–1976), was an American writer who worked in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The OSS was the predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Scott was alleged to be working for Soviet intelligence. Scott was the son of conservationist and peace activist Scott Nearing and Nellie Marguerite Seeds Nearing. Scott migrated to the Soviet Union in 1932 and worked for many years in Magnitogorsk. Scott married Mariya Ivanovna Kikareva and the two came to the United States in 1942. Scott wrote Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel about his experiences in Magnitogorsk, presenting the Stalinist enterprise of building a huge steel producing plant and city as an awe-inspiring triumph of collectivism. Scott contributed to the construction of Magnitogorsk as a welder working in treacherous conditions. In one case Scott recalls a rigger falling past him while he was working: I was just going to start welding when I heard someone sing out, and something swished down past me. It was a rigger who had been working on the very top. He bounced off the bleeder pipe...instead of falling all the way to the LESS