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North American Spies takes a fresh look at the history of espionage in the United States and Canada since 1898.
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About North American Spies
North American Spies takes a fresh look at the history of espionage in the United States and Canada since 1898. A new generation of scholars and journalists use the latest verifiable evidence to tackle some of the most important, yet least known, events in recent history. They argue in particular that Soviet secret agents may have been behind the theft of secret Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence in 1940; that President Truman's shadowy advisor, Admiral Souers, was the real architect of the CIA; and that Britain generated a home-bred McCarthyism similar to that in the U.S. This book features the first history of the Defense Intelligence Agency, includes a chapter on American spy fiction, and concludes with a guide to further study. Contributors are Catherine B. Fletcher, Danny D. Jansen, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Richard B. Laidlaw, Andrew Lownie, Graeme S. Mount, Patrick Mescall, Karen Potter, Robert E. Spears, Jr., and David Walker.
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