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103) Civil War spies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the history of spying during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Legend of Betty Pack is simple enough. She was a beautiful American spy recruited first by the British Secret Intelligence Service in 1938 and later by the American OSS. Her method of obtaining information was singular: seduction.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Taking readers into the dangerous world of espionage, this thrilling nonfiction biography follows the exciting exploits of Lydia Darragh, a midwife, mortician, devout Quaker and spy, who helped save George Washington's army from a surprise attack by theBritish"--
110) Behind enemy lines
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Eight stories of real-life heroes who took risks for their country and others behind enemy lines.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely--they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And they were both right. Traveling with his wife, Hana, Koecher posed as a Czechoslovak asylum seeker and arrived in the US as a Communist sleeper agent. After parlaying a doctorate from Columbia into a job at the CIA, Koecher proceeded to operate as a double agent at the height of the Cold War. Using newly declassified documents,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime—a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie’s...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist--those in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian...
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