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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. collective biographies. History. Juvenile works.Cunningham, Benjamin
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOCHER CUNHolt, Nathalia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 HOLWallach, Janet
Summary: "The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, MARGUERITE WALShackley, Theodore.
Summary: "But who was the real Ted Shackley? In Spymaster, he has told the story of his entire remarkable career for the first time. With the assistance of fellow former CIA officer Richard A. Finney, he discusses the consequential posts he held in Berlin, Miami, Laos, Vietnam, and Washington, where he was intimately involved in some of the key intelligence operations of the Cold War. During his long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHACKLEY, TED SHAMiller, Scott
Summary: "Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULLES, ALLEN MILPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOILLOT, VIRGINA PURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GOILLOT PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom GoillotPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOIAnderson, Scott
Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020