Declassified 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History

Name: Declassified 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History
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ISBN: 9781426202223

ISBN-10: 1426202229

ISBN-13: 9781426202223

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Authors: Thomas B. Allen, Peter Earnest

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Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents inDeclassifiedilluminate 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,…

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List price: $26.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 5/20/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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Introduction


Secrets of War


Spying on the Armada


Washington Finds a Spy


Benedict Arnold Becomes a Spy


The Lady Is a Spy


A Golden Export to Canada


T.R. Remembers the Maine


A Telegram's Special Delivery


The Man Who Started a War


Eavesdropping on Roosevelt and Churchill


Planning the "Final Solution"


Seeking Justice for Saboteurs


Stalin Approves a War


The Pentagon Papers' Legacy


16 Troublesome Words


Double Agents, Turncoats, and Traitors


Captain Henry's $50,000 Letters


Lincoln's Double Agent


Whose Ace of Spies?


The Double Agent's Dog


The Spy in the Tunnel


The Pumpkin Papers


Counterintelligence: Spy Vs. Spy


The Knight Was a Spy


The Million-Document Spy


The Soviets' Key Man


The Spy Drove a Jaguar


The FBI Mole


A Bodyguard of Lies


George Washington's Lies


The Trick That Won Midway


The Star of Double-Cross


"A Diversionary Maneuver"


"Mincemeat Swallowed Whole"


Broadcasting Believable Lies


The Game Against England


Espionage Accidents


Lee's Lost Order


Papers from a Corpse


The Hollow Nickel


In Defense of the Realm


The Beer Barrel Letters


A Map for the Mideast


An Ambassador's Doubts


Secret Notes at Yalta


A Package in the Snow


The Secret State


A Secret Request to Congress


An Enduring Lie


The Dreyfus Affair


The FBI and Trotsky


Tap, Tap, Tap


Bombs of a New Type


The Magic Messages


The Golden Age of Soviet Espionage


The Family Jewels


For the President's Eyes Only


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Selected Internet Sites


Illustrations Credits


Index