North American Spies

by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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Pub Date 20 May 2021 | Archive Date 20 May 2021

Lume Books

Biographies & Memoirs | History | Nonfiction (Adult)

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Description

North American Spies takes a fresh look at the history of espionage in the United States and Canada since 1898.

In this important collection of essays, 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; 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 USA.

This book features the first scholarly history of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and concludes with a guide to further study. Opening up a world often obscured by deliberate misinformation, North American Spies should be on the bookshelf of anyone with a serious interest in contemporary espionage and intelligence.

North American Spies takes a fresh look at the history of espionage in the United States and Canada since 1898.

In this important collection of essays, a new generation of scholars and journalists...

A Note From the Publisher

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Reader in the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh, and is author of The CIA and American Democracy.

Advance Praise

’A serious and valuable contribution to a rising academic concern with the doings of the secret world’ - Bradley F Smith, author of The Origins of the CIA

‘A strong collection edited by two well-known and respected authors’ - Robin Winks, Yale University

‘Impressive … Should attract a wide readership’ - Loch Johnson, author of The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence

’A serious and valuable contribution to a rising academic concern with the doings of the secret world’ - Bradley F Smith, author of The Origins of the CIA

‘A strong collection edited by two...