Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky and little-known truths behind state secrets and clandestine operations. Each of seven chapters centers on one particular theme: ...
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Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky and little-known truths behind state secrets and clandestine operations. Each of seven chapters centers on one particular theme: secrets of war, the art of the double cross, spy vs. spy, espionage accidents, and more. Through support and access provided by the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., this lively history contains never-before-published and hard-to-find documents-printed from scans of the originals wherever possible. These include The Zimmerman Telegram, which led America into World War I; letters from Robert Hanssen to his Soviet spymaster, marking the start of his devastating career as a mole; and papers as recent as the Presidential Daily Brief that announced that Bin Laden was determined to strike the U.S.-delivered in August 2001.
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Very good in Very good jacket. 320 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Selected Internet Sites. Index. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ and sticker residue. Inscribed on the title page by the writer of the Foreword Peter Earnest. Inscription reads For Ted w/Best Wishes Peter Earnest. Peter Earnest was an American intelligence officer. He was the first director of the International Spy Museum. This work includes sections on Secrets of War; Double Agents, Turncoats, and Traitors; Counterintelligence: Spy vs. Spy; Bodyguard of Lies; Espionage Accidents; In Defense of the Realm; and The Secret State. Thomas Benton Allen (March 20, 1929-December 11, 2018) was an American author and historian. While still a teenager he was a cub reporter for the Bridgeport Herald and later served in the US Navy as a journalist. He was a reporter for the New York Daily News and then an editor for Chilton Books of Philadelphia. He joined the National Geographic Society in 1965 and later became Associate Chief Editor. He wrote more than twenty-five books. His first book, Shadows in the Sea, was published in 1963 and his final book was 1789. Many of his books and articles focused on military and intelligence subjects, and in 2004 he was named author of the year by the U.S. Naval Institute "for the sustained high quality of his literary contributions to Naval History magazine." His writings for National Geographic Magazine included articles on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Eighth Air Force, and the sinking of the USS Maine. Allen had co-authored numerous books with Norman Polmar. He had also written numerous mystery novels. Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky and little-known truths behind state secrets and clandestine operations. Each of seven chapters centers on one particular theme: secrets of war, the art of the double cross, spy vs. spy, espionage accidents, and more. Through support and access provided by the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., this lively history contains never-before-published and hard-to-find documents, printed from scans of the originals wherever possible. These include The Zimmerman Telegram, which led America into World War I; letters from Robert Hanssen to his Soviet spymaster, marking the start of his devastating career as a mole; and papers as recent as the Presidential Daily Brief that announced that Bin Laden was determined to strike the U.S., delivered in August 2001. The public interest in state secrets and espionage has been piqued by our current international conflicts, and this engrossing book, engagingly written for the general reader, will definitely feed that fascination.
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