Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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WOW!!!! What a book! For all true crime fanatics, lovers of Mafia escapades and conspiracy theorists, this book is for you!!! John C. Campbell, "A Retrospective on John Masterman's The Double-Cross System", International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 18: 320–353, 2005. I am a big fan of the mighty Ben Macintyre, so it was only a matter of time before I'd read Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.

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spooks), MI-5, המרגלים וכנראה שעוד כמה. בשבילי זה הדבר הכי איכותי שידעתי באותו זמן. אחר כך, עם בואם של סרטי הג'יימס בונד וג'ייסון בורן זה גם הפך להיות הדבר הכי אמין בעניין הריגול. כמובן, עדיין בגדר תוכנית טלוויזיה. The author also looks at the American attempts to get into the intel game how it almost cost MI 6 one of their better agents. It seems that in the attempt to be good partners, MI 6 let the FBI/OSS run one the agents who had moved to the US. The attempt failed because Herbert Hoover, the head of the FBI, did not believe in or trust double agents and wouldn’t allow the agent to be given anything at all believable or of any use to the Germans. After about six months the agent reverted to British control and according to the author left a bad taste all around and a rather large hotel bill for the Americans to pay. blurbs - A team of agents (codenames Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo) is recruited to work as part of the 'Double Cross System' run by the secret Twenty Committee.He looks at how both sides recruited agents, controlled them, their methods of communications and how the British used the time delay for getting information from Britain to Spain to their advantage. Sometimes this was done in letting agents give the Germans actual operational details, but timed in such a way that they would arrive too late to be of any use. There are 5 spies in particular on which this book focuses: Tricycle, Garbo, Treasure, Brutus, and Bronx. Other such as Artist, Gelatine, Freak, and Giraffe are mentioned as well. I also enjoyed the little side stories of other spy's escapades, such as the wretched actor who made a magnificent double for Monty, the pigeon fanatic's efforts to infest German carrier pigeons with traitor pigeons, and an frustrated but nevertheless blustering Patton marching around touting his command of military units that did not exist. One slip, just one slip, one betrayal, one triple agent, could have blown the whole works, and perhaps cost the lives of tens of thousands more. And it nearly happened when the British spy handlers miscalculated the love of a the spy called Treasure for her little dog, and the bitterness she harbored when they broke their word to her regarding her beloved Frisson.

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Forest – Lucien G. Herviou, French, SS 1943. Collaborated with OSS (Office of Strategic Services) in 1944. German codename LUC. Codename Fidelino, Italian?. Collaborated with Monoplane - Operation Jessica. Posing as German spies they were handsomely paid by the Nazis, while working for the Allies. The money supplied by the Germans (about 4.3 million pounds in todays currency) supported the German mission, while also covering the costs for Allies. These "characters" are full of antics and humor, but upon reflection the reader understands how they put their lives and the lives of their families in the dangerous path of Germanys SS. Popov, Dusko (1 January 1974). Spy/Counterspy. Weidenfeld and Nicolson; First Edition. ISBN 0448116065. Sam Giancana brother and Nephew tell a story of the mobster from his childhood beginnings right up to his untimely demise.This is an astonishingly good, absolutely riveting account of a disparate group of individuals whose exploits during WW2 went largely unsung. It was provided to me by netgalley and is well written with humor, empathy and clarity. It brings in accounts of other operations and the bigger picture to provide context, but never moves away from the double agents themselves.

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I doubt I'll live long enough to fully appreciate the innumerable stories that continue to publish almost 70 years after the end of World War II, and this is just one more example of what makes most of them so engaging, so captivating, so essential. You don't get labeled as a "World War" without involving a good portion of the globe and, although it involves perhaps the most chronicled event of the war in D-Day and the Normandy Invasion, "Double Cross" is the riveting story of a handful of behind-the-lines soldiers who never engaged in traditional combat but who had as much influence, if not more, over the outcome as any pilot, sailor or soldier. There were lots of pieces of info regarding the two Kennedy murders that are very intriguing. The book states as fact that the Outfit, in conjunction with the CIA, were responsible for both murders. The facts presented are compelling, but anyone who has real proof has not yet provided it. You decide what you think. While Macintyre adroitly focuses on the day-today machinations of this band of seeming misfits, what makes them even more fascinating is the personal life each leads in secret. A couple are bon vivants who seem tailor-made for lives of espionage; another is a middle-age woman whose attachment to her dog threatens to unravel her cover and story at virtually every turn. These, as we learn, are exactly the kind of people whom the rest of us least suspect of gleaning and transmitting secrets that could impact and affect the course of wars. All seem at one point capable of turning from a double spy to a triple spy (or even a quadruple spy), yet ultimately each makes the decisions and takes the actions required to mislead the Germans on June 6, 1944, and none should be viewed as anything less than heroic, their contributions impossible to overestimate.

Haufler, Hervie (2014-04-01). The Spies Who Never Were: The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-4976-2262-3. Nonetheless, fans of non-fiction espionage should find some wheat amongst the chaff in this revelation of the part spies and deception played in the successful allied invasion of Normandy (otherwise known as D-Day). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. A few months ago, I decided to accept my pandemic attention span as it is, and not feel guilty about what I choose to read--embarking on a schedule of, mostly, rereading. Double Cross was a new book but it's by a familiar author on a familiar theme so it worked out anyway. It is a known fact that JFK narrowly beat Nixon thanks to the teamster vote organized by mob in Illinois.