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This is the best book on William Stephenson, head of British Security Coordination and one of the key players in encouraging FDR to: a) create a separate agency for foreign intelligence (and thus replace the FBI's role); and b) appoint William Donovan as the director of the new agency (OSS, forerunner to the CIA).
It is a resource book, and one of the sources I cite in my own book (Into the Lion's Mouth, Berkley, June 14, 2016) for details of how the BSC was involved in counter-espionage in New ...more
It is a resource book, and one of the sources I cite in my own book (Into the Lion's Mouth, Berkley, June 14, 2016) for details of how the BSC was involved in counter-espionage in New ...more
This was an amazing book to read. "A Man Called Intrepid" proves that truth can be as exciting as fiction. I learned a great deal from this book that I hadn't previously known. The book is really a series of true stories about operations run by Stephenson out of his headquarters in New York City. It brings light on some of the terrible decisions Churchill and Roosevelt had to make before and during World War II. I developed a greater appreciation of these giants as well as the numerous men and w
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This book is the first one I ever read about epsionage. I was in high school. I was fascinated and hooked ever since.
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