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- Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
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- 2012
- Published by: Georgetown University Press
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Can you keep a secret?
Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the 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 Michael Sulick, former director of CIA’s clandestine service, Spying in America presents a history of more than thirty espionage cases inside the United States. These cases include Americans who spied against their country, spies from both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War, and foreign agents who ran operations on American soil. Some of the stories are familiar, such as those of Benedict Arnold and Julius Rosenberg, while others, though less well known, are equally fascinating.
From the American Revolution, through the Civil War and two World Wars, to the atomic age of the Manhattan Project, Sulick details the lives of those who have betrayed America’s secrets. In each case he focuses on the motivations that drove these individuals to spy, their access and the secrets they betrayed, their tradecraft or techniques for concealing their espionage, their exposure and punishment, and the damage they ultimately inflicted on America’s national security.
Spying in America serves as the perfect introduction to the early history of espionage in America. Sulick’s unique experience as a senior intelligence officer is evident as he skillfully guides the reader through these cases of intrigue, deftly illustrating the evolution of American awareness about espionage and the fitful development of American counterespionage leading up to the Cold War.
Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the 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 Michael Sulick, former director of CIA’s clandestine service, Spying in America presents a history of more than thirty espionage cases inside the United States. These cases include Americans who spied against their country, spies from both the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War, and foreign agents who ran operations on American soil. Some of the stories are familiar, such as those of Benedict Arnold and Julius Rosenberg, while others, though less well known, are equally fascinating.
From the American Revolution, through the Civil War and two World Wars, to the atomic age of the Manhattan Project, Sulick details the lives of those who have betrayed America’s secrets. In each case he focuses on the motivations that drove these individuals to spy, their access and the secrets they betrayed, their tradecraft or techniques for concealing their espionage, their exposure and punishment, and the damage they ultimately inflicted on America’s national security.
Spying in America serves as the perfect introduction to the early history of espionage in America. Sulick’s unique experience as a senior intelligence officer is evident as he skillfully guides the reader through these cases of intrigue, deftly illustrating the evolution of American awareness about espionage and the fitful development of American counterespionage leading up to the Cold War.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part 1: The Revolutionary War
- 2. The First Spy: Benjamin Church
- pp. 21-28
- Part 2: The Civil War
- 5. Espionage and the Civil War
- pp. 63-70
- 11. Union Espionage
- pp. 99-106
- Part 3: Espionage during the World Wars, 1914–45
- 12. Espionage Before World War I
- pp. 109-112
- 14. US Counterespionage and World War I
- pp. 119-122
- 15. Spy Hysteria Between the World Wars
- pp. 123-126
- 16. German Espionage in World War II
- pp. 127-132
- 18. The Double Agent: William Sebold
- pp. 137-142
- 21. Japanese Espionage in World War II
- pp. 155-162
- Part 4: The Golden Age of Soviet Espionage—the 1930s and 1940s
- 22. The Origins of Cold War Espionage
- pp. 165-172
- 24. The Golden Age Exposed: Igor Gouzenko
- pp. 181-184
- 25. The "Red Spy Queen": Elizabeth Bentley
- pp. 185-192
- Part 5: The Atomic Bomb Spies: Prelude to the Cold War
- 30. The Atomic Bomb Spies
- pp. 221-226
- 31. The Executed Spies: The Rosenbergs
- pp. 227-242
- Bibliography
- pp. 293-302
- About the Author
- pp. 303-304
Additional Information
ISBN
9781589019270
Related ISBN(s)
9781589019263
MARC Record
OCLC
821265703
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No