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

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Potomac Books, Inc., 2001 - History - 337 pages
James 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)."

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Herr Zimmermanns Fatal Blunder
The Enigma Demystified
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

Learned Spies
Lucy Man of Mystery
Infamy and Sacred Duty
Bibliography
Index
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