Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies : How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

by GANNON JAMES

• ISBN13: 9781574883671
• ISBN10: 1574883674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

How important is it to know your enemy's secrets? The German victory at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, the entrance of the United States into World War I, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union's faster-than-anticipated development of the atomic bomb were all facilitated by stealing enemy secrets. Espionage and codebreaking have, throughout history, been instrumental in the rise, fall, and preservation of world powers. In Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies James Gannon provides the full story behind the critical intelligence breakthroughs that helped alter the course of history in the twentieth century. The interception of the Zimmerman Telegram, the deciphering of the German Enigma machine, the Soviet's damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the "Cambridge Five" spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (still secret until 1995) are just some of the episodes detailed here.

Author Biography

James Gannon is a freelance writer and award-winning producer and writer of documentaries for NBC News. His articles have appeared in The Nation, American Legion Magazine, and National Parks and Conservation Magazine. Mr. Gannon lives in Stony Point, New York

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Information, Please!	p. 1
The Great War
Herr Zimmermann's Fatal Blunder	p. 11
The Cipher War
The Enigma Demystified	p. 27
The Longest Battle	p. 59
Outfoxing the Desert Fox	p. 72
Colossus	p. 84
Who Broke Purple?	p. 94
Masters of Deception	p. 107
The Espionage War
Learned Spies	p. 133
"Lucy," Man of Mystery	p. 155
The Pacific War
Infamy and Sacred Duty	p. 177
"Our Man in Tokyo"	p. 190
The Cold War
The Spy Who Knew Everything	p. 209
The Spy of the Century	p. 222
Speak, Ciphers!	p. 236
Exposing Comrade Bluster	p. 250
Workers against the Workers' State	p. 273
Notes	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 306
Index	p. 313
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