Stealing Secrets, Telling Lies: How Spies and Codebreakers Helped Shape the Twentieth CenturyJames Gannon examines the impact of many major incidents, such as the Zimmerman telegram interception, deciphering the German Enigma machine, the SovietsOCO damaging penetration of the British Foreign Service through the Cambridge Five spy ring, and the U.S. counterintelligence coup known as Operation Venona (classified until 1995)." |
Contents
The Longest Battle | |
Outfoxing the Desert | |
Colossus | |
Who Broke Purple? | |
Masters of Deception | |
Our Man in Tokyo | |
THE COLD | |
The Spy Who Knew Everything | |
The Spy of the Century | |
Speak Ciphers | |
Exposing Comrade Bluster | |
Workers against the Workers State | |
Notes | |
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