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Espionage's Most Wanted
Thomas E. Mahl
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Description for Espionage's Most Wanted
paperback. Chronicles 500 of the most daring spies, ingenious plots, bungled operations, and surprising facts about the history of espionage and intelligence from around the world. Its fifty lists include the top-ten intelligence agencies, master spies, traitors, spy gadgets, code-breaking coups, covert operations blunders, and colourful dirty tricks. Series: Most Wanted. Num Pages: 300 pages, 15 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: JPSH; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 363.
In Espionage's Most Wanted™, readers will learn that America’s first spymasters included Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. Otto von Bismarck’s chief spy, Wilhelm Stieber, posed as an itinerant peddler and sold religious artifacts and pornography to enemy troops as a cover for collecting intelligence. During the cultural competition of the Cold War, the CIA helped popularize abstract expressionism by spending millions to promote the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock. The East Germans once traded two captured West German agents for one dead East German agent. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt cleverly disrupted an intimate dinner meeting between Mexican ... Read more
In Espionage's Most Wanted™, readers will learn that America’s first spymasters included Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. Otto von Bismarck’s chief spy, Wilhelm Stieber, posed as an itinerant peddler and sold religious artifacts and pornography to enemy troops as a cover for collecting intelligence. During the cultural competition of the Cold War, the CIA helped popularize abstract expressionism by spending millions to promote the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock. The East Germans once traded two captured West German agents for one dead East German agent. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt cleverly disrupted an intimate dinner meeting between Mexican ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Most Wanted
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781574884890
SKU
V9781574884890
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About Thomas E. Mahl
Tom E. Mahl holds a doctorate in history and teaches at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44 and Espionage's Most Wanted™. Dr. Mahl lives in Elyria, Ohio.
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