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vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction: The Peril of Disbelief 1 Part 1: The Revolutionary War 13 1 Espionage and the Revolutionary War 15 2 The First Spy: Benjamin Church 21 3 The Undetected Spy: Edward Bancroft 29 4 The Treasonous Spy: Benedict Arnold 39 Part 2: The Civil War 61 5 Espionage and the Civil War 63 6 Allan Pinkerton and Union Counterintelligence 71 7 The Chameleon Spy: Timothy Webster 77 8 The Spy in the Union Capital: Rose Greenhow 81 9 The Counterspy as Tyrant: Lafayette Baker 87 10 The Confederacy’s Reverend Spy: Thomas Conrad 93 11 Union Espionage 99 vii Contents viii Part 3: Espionage during the World Wars, 1914–45 107 12 Espionage before World War I 109 13 Prelude to War: Germany’s First Spy Network 113 14 US Counterespionage and World War I 119 15 Spy Hysteria between the World Wars 123 16 German Espionage in World War II 127 17 The Spy in US Industry: The Norden Bombsight 133 18 The Double Agent: William Sebold 137 19 German Intelligence Failures in World War II 143 20 The Spy in the State Department: Tyler Kent 149 21 Japanese Espionage in World War II 155 Part 4: The Golden Age of Soviet Espionage— the 1930s and 1940s 163 22 The Origins of Cold War Espionage 165 23 America’s Counterespionage Weapon: Venona 173 24 The Golden Age Exposed: Igor Gouzenko 181 25 The “Red Spy Queen”: Elizabeth Bentley 185 26 Spy versus Spy: Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss 193 27 The Spy in the Treasury: Harry Dexter White 201 28 The Spy in the White House: Lauchlin Currie 207 29 The Spy in US Counterespionage: Judith Coplon 211 Part 5: The Atomic Bomb Spies: Prelude to the Cold War 219 30 The Atomic Bomb Spies 221 31 The Executed Spies: The Rosenbergs 227 32 The Atomic Bomb Spy Who Got Away: Theodore Hall 243 33 The Spy from the Cornfields: George Koval 253 Conclusion: Espionage in the Cold War and Beyond 265 Notes 275 Bibliography 293 About the Author 303 Index 305 ...

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