DOUBLE AGENT, The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
Language: English
Published by Published by Scribner, New York, 2014
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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First edition.8vo.pp.viii + 338 + black & white photographs including epilogue, acknowledgments, notes and index. Some minor foxing to foredges and end papers else very good Black quarter cloth binding with red paper boards in original pictorial dust wrapper. "Double Agent" by Peter Duffy tells the riveting true story of William G. Sebold, the first double agent in FBI history. In 1940, Sebold, a naturalized American of German birth, was coerced into becoming a spy for Nazi Germany. However, upon returning to the United States, he contacted the FBI and agreed to work as a double agent. Sebold played a crucial role in a sophisticated counter-espionage operation that led to the arrest and conviction of 33 Nazi spies, significantly weakening German intelligence operations in the U.S. during World War II. Duffy's well-researched narrative highlights Sebold's bravery and the intricate spycraft of the time, offering a compelling account of espionage and counterintelligence efforts that had a lasting impact on the war..…
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- Title
- DOUBLE AGENT, The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
- Author
- DUFFY, Peter;
- Publisher
- Published by Scribner, New York
- Publication year
- 2014
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1451667957
- ISBN 13
- 9781451667950
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- MILITARY
From the time Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German spies were active in New York. In 1937, a German national living in Queens stole the blueprints for the country’s most precious secret, the Norden Bombsight, delivering them to the German military two years before World War II started in Europe and four years before the US joined the fight. When the FBI uncovered a ring of Nazi spies in the city, President Franklin Roosevelt formally declared J. Edgar Hoover as America’s spymaster with responsibility for overseeing all investigations. As war began in Europe in 1939, a naturalized German-American was recruited by the Nazis to set up a radio transmitter and collect messages from spies active in the city to send back to Nazi spymasters in Hamburg. This German-American, William G. Sebold, approached the FBI and became the first double agent in the Bureau’s history, the center of a sixteen-month investigation that led to the arrest of a colorful cast of thirty-three enemy agents, among them a South African adventurer with an exotic accent and a monocle and a Jewish femme fatale, Lilly Stein, who escaped Nazi Vienna by offering to seduce US military men into whispering secrets into her ear.
A riveting, meticulously researched, and fast-moving story, Double Agent details the largest and most important espionage bust in American history.
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