Agent 146

Agent 146
Author: Erich Gimpel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Espionage, German
ISBN: 9780786253692

Erich Gimpel recalls his life as a spy for the Third Reich, discusses his mission to sabotage America's atomic program, and tells how his association with American turncoat William Colepaugh almost led to his being executed.

The Nazi Spy Ring in America

The Nazi Spy Ring in America
Author: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1647120055

In the mid-1930s, just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality, Nazi Germany launched a program of espionage against the unwary nation. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s fascinating history provides the first full account of Nazi spies in 1930s America and how they were exposed in a high-profile FBI case that became a national sensation.

The Nazi Spy Ring in America

The Nazi Spy Ring in America
Author: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1647120047

The first full account of Nazi spies in 1930s America and how they were exposed. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality, Nazi Germany launched a program of espionage against the unwary nation. The Nazi Spy Ring in America tells the story of Hitler’s attempts to interfere in American affairs by spreading anti-Semitic propaganda, stealing military technology, and mapping US defenses. This fast-paced history provides essential insight into the role of espionage in shaping American perceptions of Germany in the years leading up to US entry into World War II. Fascinating and thoroughly researched, The Nazi Spy Ring in America sheds light on a now-forgotten but significant episode in the history of international relations and the development of the FBI. Using recently declassified documents, prize-winning historian Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones narrates this little-known chapter in US history. He shows how Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the Abwehr, was able to steal top secret US technology such as a prototype codebreaking machine and data about the latest fighter planes. At the center of the story is Leon Turrou, the FBI agent who helped bring down the Nazi spy ring in a case that quickly transformed into a national sensation. The arrest and prosecution of four members of the ring was a high-profile case with all the trappings of fiction: fast cars, louche liaisons, a murder plot, a Manhattan socialite, and a ringleader codenamed Agent Sex. Part of the story of breaking the Nazi spy ring is also the rise and fall of Turrou, whose talent was matched only by his penchant for publicity, which eventually caused him to run afoul of J. Edgar Hoover's strict codes of conduct.

The German Spy in America

The German Spy in America
Author: John Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781549981227

My dear Mr. Jones,I have read the galley proofs of your book, and I wish to say, with all emphasis and heartiness, that you are doing this country a great service in publishing it.Your statements are evidently for the most part based on official Government records, happening in the course of prosecuting the various criminals, who by the direct instigation of the German Government, have for the last two and one-half years been using this country as a base for war against the Allies, and more than this, have in effect been waging war on us within our own boundaries, no less than on the high seas. Our people need to know certain of the facts that you set forth. They need to understand that Germany has waged war upon us, and has waged war against our property, and has waged war against the lives of non-combatants, including women and children, and therefore a far more evil war than one waged openly. Our people also need to understand what you so clearly set forth that very much of the pacifist movement has been directly instigated by German intrigues, and paid for by German money, and that the entire pacifist movement in this country, during the past two and a half years, has really been in the interest of German militarism against the rights of small nations, and against our own honour and vital national interests. You have done a capital work, and I wish it could be put in the hands of all good Americans.Sincerely yours,Theodore Roosevelt.Mr. John Price Jones,The Sun, New York

Double Agent

Double Agent
Author: Peter Duffy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451667957

An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.

The German Spy in America; the Secret Plotting of German Spies in the United States and the Inside Story of the Sinking of the Lusitania

The German Spy in America; the Secret Plotting of German Spies in the United States and the Inside Story of the Sinking of the Lusitania
Author: John Price Jones
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230425061

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II CAPTAIN FRANZ VON PAPEN, DIRECTOR OF GERMANY'S MILI- TARY ENTERPRISES ON THE AMERICAN FRONT "I ALWAYS say to these idiotic Yankees they A had better hold their tongues." So wrote Captain Franz von Papen, German military attache in America, to his wife in Ger- many--a letter which he entrusted to Captain James F. J. Archibald, American newspaper correspondent and bearer of secret and confiden- tial messages from Teutonic representatives. The German word which the Captain used was "bloedsinnig," meaning silly, stupid, idiotic. It has a sneering ring, truly typical of the Prussian warrior's contempt for Americans. It suggests the disdainful feeling which the military attache had for the loyalty of Americans. One can imag- ine his sly laugh as he handed to an American that letter and code messages to the War Staff. With a similar feeling of contempt for the British, when dismissed from this country and assured of safe conduct as to person, he carried on board the steamer Noordam a portfolio of papers from friends reflecting the same disgust for America and outlining his own unlawful and criminal acts in America. But in both instances his arrogant self-confidence brought exposure. This attitude of arrogance was Captain von Papen's chief characteristic. Joined to it was the brother trait, bluntness. He believed that the American people were not only stupid but also weak-sighted and that he could do anything he wanted without detection. So he put his heart and soul into military and criminal enterprises upon American soil. The Captain apparently thought that the American authorities would not suspect his machinations, for, unlike Captain BoyEd, he made comparatively few efforts to cover up the trails of his activities. That...

Deep Undercover

Deep Undercover
Author: Jack Barsky
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496416821

An ex-Soviet KGB agent details his primary mission to work undercover in the United States for over a decade and discusses his change of allegiance and defection from the KGB. --Publisher's description.