Spying in America : espionage from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Cold War

Spying in America : espionage from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Cold War / Michael J. Sulick.

Can you keep a secret? Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of our country, nations large and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the most precious secrets of the United States. Written by a former director of the CIA's clandestine s...

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Main Author: Sulick, Michael J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Espionage > United States > Case studies.
Espionage > United States > History.
Spies > United States > Biography.
Spies > United States > History.
Espionage, German > United States > History > 20th century.
Spies > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Military intelligence > United States > History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The peril of disbelief
  • The Revolutionary War : Espionage and the Revolutionary War ; The first spy: Benjamin Church ; The undetected spy: Edward Bancroft ; The treasonous spy: Benedict Arnold
  • The Civil War : Espionage and the Civil War ; Allan Pinkerton and Union counterintelligence ; The chameleon spy: Timothy Webster ; The spy in the Union capital: Rose Greenhow ; The counterspy as tyrant: Lafayette Baker ; The Confederacy's reverend spy: Thomas Conrad ; Union espionage
  • Espionage During the World Wars, 1914-45 : Espionage before World War I ; Prelude to war: Germany's first spy network ; U.S. counterespionage and World War I ; Spy hysteria between the world wars ; German espionage in World War II ; The spy in U.S. industry: the Norden bombsight ; The double agent: William Sebold ; German intelligence failures in World War II ; The spy in the State Department: Tyler Kent ; Japanese espionage in World War II
  • The golden age of Soviet espionage: the 1930s and 1940s : The origins of Cold War espionage ; America's counterespionage weapon: Venona ; The golden age exposed: Igor Gouzenko ; The "Red Spy Queen" : Elizabeth Bentley ; Spy versus spy: Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss ; The spy in the Treasury: Harry Dexter White ; The spy in the White House: Lauchlin Currie ; The spy in U.S. counterespionage: Judith Coplon
  • The atomic bomb spies: prelude to the Cold War : The atomic bomb spies ; The executed spies: the Rosenbergs ; The atomic bomb spy who got away: Theodore Hall ; The spy from the cornfields: George Koval
  • Espionage in the Cold War and beyond.

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