Family of Spies Quotes

“Against this tawdry backdrop, Otto met with Captain Kanji Ogawa, an intelligence expert who was the mastermind behind Japan’s espionage efforts at Pearl Harbor, presenting him with a letter prepared by his Nazi contacts for the meeting. Ogawa, chief of American affairs for the Third Bureau, the Japanese equivalent of the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, and other officers grilled Otto about his experience in the Nazi secret police, conscious that if they chose the wrong person for the post their careful effort to prepare for an attack on the United States could fail.”
― Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies

“Hell was heading toward paradise, but it seemed to be arriving in slow motion.”
― Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies

“Officials at the highest levels of the government were startled by the fact that our shores had been breached by German spies.”
― Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies

“Hoover had deployed a lot of manpower to the FBI office in Hawaii and stepped up the pressure on Shivers. Yet here was the plan for the entire Japanese assault in front of his face”
― Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies

“In 1921, Hitler assembled a large group of unemployed young men and former World War I veterans and formed the Sturmabteilung (SA), or Storm Troopers. Nicknamed “Brownshirts,” they became the party’s private army, charged with protecting meetings and intimidating political opponents via harassment and attacks designed to break up their rallies and gatherings.”
― Christine Kuehn, Family of Spies