secret service

A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule.

The story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich during World War II---and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent and the Allies best double agent.

In the months before World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by using various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA. Author Richard Harris Smith, retired from the CIA in 1968, documents the controversial agency from its inception to its demise under President Harry Truman and its reconfiguration as the CIA.

British operative Felicity "Flick" Clariet, her confidence shaken by a previous disaster, is given the nearly impossible task of recruiting and training a group of six women, to be known as the Jackdaws, to infiltrate and destroy Europe's largest telephone exchange, sabotaging German communications in preparation for D-Day.

Presents accounts of Allied and Axis intelligence throughout World War II, telling stories of patriotism and treachery, spies, codes, civilian bravado, and other dangerous escapades.

Describes covert operations and strategies of World War II.

Examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's intelligence and espionage operations during World War II and describes how much FDR had been told before the Holocaust about the coming fate of European Jews.