Joseph E. Persico (73 page)

“was our main basis of information. . . .”: ibid.

“[a]n American espionage agency in Lisbon. . . .”: RG 457 SRH 113.

“would be nothing less. . . .”: ibid.

“the folly of letting loose a group. . . .”: ibid.

“. . . that steps be taken immediately to recall. . . .”: ibid.

“the ill advised and amateurish efforts. . . .”: Anthony Cave Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 305.

“used by the Japanese . . .”: ibid., p. 306.

“Nothing has happened to the code books. . . .”: RG 457 SRH 113.

ROOSEVELT PROTECTED IN TALKS TO ENVOYS:
Ladislas Farago,
The Game of the Foxes,
p. 586.

“completed . . . an installation. . . .”: ibid., pp. 587–88.

“We do not want to propose armistice. . . .”: Warren F. Kimball,
Churchill & Roosevelt,
p. 357.

“This is incontrovertible evidence. . . .”: ibid.

Hitler had decided three days before: David Kahn,
Code Breaking in World Wars I and II,
p. 176.

“. . . in view of the position which you have taken. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 343.

Instead, he signaled that Wild Bill: ibid., p. 344.

It was the bureaucratic infighting: Richard Gid Powers,
Secrecy and Power,
p. 226.

Donovan pointed out that the OSS: PSF Box 8.

Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten pleaded: Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
p. 688.

Donovan informed the President that he had: PSF Box 149; Neal H. Petersen, ed.,
From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942–1945,
p. 4.

“Espionage is not a game. . . .”: Ernest Volkman,
Spies,
p. vii.

Dulles was also a ladies' man: Petersen, p. 5.

He had the lightbulbs removed: Jim Bishop,
FDR's Last Year,
p. 502; Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 274.

During a diplomatic assignment to Bern: Joseph E. Persico,
Piercing the Reich,
p. 65.

Unsuspected by his superiors: William B. Breuer,
Hoodwinking Hitler,
p. 26.

“I don't believe you. . . .”: Persico,
Piercing the Reich,
p. 64.

Aware of the skepticism he aroused: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 279.

Dansey was described by his own people: Breuer, p. 28.

“obviously a plant” whom “Dulles. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 279.

However, when Kolbe's purloined messages: ibid.

“[S]hipments of oranges will continue. . . .”: Persico,
Piercing the Reich,
p. 68.

Another foreign office communiqué: ibid.

“We have secured through secret intelligence. . . .”: Brown,
The Last Hero,
p. 280.

The first fourteen messages from Kolbe/Wood's: ibid.

Thirteen-year-old Sumner: Irwin F. Gellman,
Secret Affairs,
p. 59.

Furthermore, Cordell Hull was suffering: Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 307.

Sumner Welles, reserved, soft-spoken: Gellman, p. xi.

When the porter declined: Gentry, p. 307.

He had made homosexual passes: ibid., p. 308.

Hoover, aware that he himself was rumored: Athan Theoharis, ed.,
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover,
p. 346.

The results were kept in the FBI's “OC”: Gellman, p. 236.

According to FDR's son Jimmy: James Roosevelt,
My Parents,
p. 186.

Bullitt had somehow managed to get his hands: Gentry, p. 309.

Bullitt was further suspected: ibid.

In April 1941 the egocentric: Orville H. Bullitt, ed.,
For the President, Personal and Secret,
p. 512.

“I know all about. . . .”: ibid., p. 513.

As the general stepped in: ibid., p. 514.

He might commit suicide: Gentry, p. 309.

“Well, he's not doing it. . . .”: ibid.

Long ago FDR had had his own brush: Suckley, Binder 18, pp. 230–32.

He told Senator Alben Barkley: Gentry, p. 287.

Shortly after Welles's resignation: Gellman, p. 2.

“‘
You-can-go-down-there!
'”: James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 350.

Bullitt had fulfilled the description: Gentry, p. 308.

“If I go to Moscow. . . .”: Sherwood, p. 756; Gellman, p. 317.

chapter xviii: distrusting allies

“As far as it is known. . . .”: Ladislas Farago,
The Game of the Foxes,
p. 655.

The Abwehr agreed to a plan: ibid., p. 648.

When he smiled he exposed: ibid., pp. 649–55.

Koehler was briefed by the Abwehr: ibid., p. 648.

They set him up: ibid., pp. 650–51.

“This information is being made available. . . .”: POF Box 106.

As a young Communist in Germany: Norman Moss,
Klaus Fuchs,
p. 12.

While engaged in this work: ibid., p. 53.

Before the year was out: ibid., pp. 38–40.

More important, he possessed: ibid., p. 59.

Sonya explained to Fuchs: ibid., p. 40.

“Can you tell me the way . . .?”: ibid., p. 47.

Gold, a chemist by profession: ibid., p. 48.

They were meeting at Berle's: U.S. Congress,
Hearings on Proposed Legislation to Curb or Control the Communist Party of the United States,
February 1948, p. 1406.

He had been part of a Communist: ibid., p. 1293.

He had broken with the party: Allen Weinstein,
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case,
p. 307.

Felix Frankfurter gave the Hisses: ibid., p. 63.

“The campaign of calumny against the Soviet Union. . . .”: MR Box 8.

Secretary of State Hull managed: ibid.

“Since the Polish Government. . . .”: ibid.

“The military and police officers. . . .”: Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov,
Special Tasks,
p. 477.

“[s]pecial tribunals . . . without summoning. . . .”: ibid., pp. 477–78.

Documents released following the collapse: ibid., p. 476.

O'Malley made clear: Warren F. Kimball,
Churchill & Roosevelt,
vol. 2, pp. 389–94.

“[I]n view of the immense importance. . . .”: ibid., p. 398.

“If,” his message ended: ibid., p. 399.

“Nevertheless, should you have time. . . .”: ibid., p. 389.

The President never made: MR, Roosevelt to Stalin, April 26, 1943.

A Magic decrypt picked up: RG 457 #85850.

“extraordinarily beautiful woman . . .”: Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood,
p. 4.

Duggan, according to Soviet wartime documents: ibid., p. 9.

By 1939, Duggan had begun: ibid., p. 19.

In March of that year: Henry Wallace Papers, Reel 13, Frame 1149, FDRL.

“There's been an awful lot. . . .”: Robert D. Graff Papers, Box 3, FDRL.

In 1940 the old Bolshevik had been railroaded: POF Box 1.

His conviction, however, did not deter: ibid.

The feisty La Guardia came to the White House: Graff Papers, Box 3.

“They had been engaged in. . . .”: James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett,
Affectionately, F.D.R.,
pp. 50–51.

At Tehran, Stalin could be expected: Laslo Havas,
Hitler's Plot to Kill the Big 3,
p. 170.

“had been making a certain amount. . . .”: PSF Box 153.

“had come on a highly secret. . . .”: ibid.

Because the bombing was destroying: ibid.

OSS obligingly arranged the flight: M 1642, Reel 117, Frame 297.

“The story he brought back. . . .”: PSF Box 153.

Hurley, he told FDR, “disclaims. . . .”: ibid.

“I beg you to read this. . . .”: ibid.

The idea that Morde's plan: M 1642, Reel 7a, Frame 298.

With the President were Mrs. Hull: Day-by-Day, Nov. 10, 1943.

Reilly had persuaded friends: Michael F. Reilly,
Reilly of the White House,
p. 28.

People like him had no business: PSF Box 153.

For anyone else, support of: Jürgen Heideking and Christof Mauch, eds.,
American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler,
p. 6.

On October 14, Earle sent the White House: MR Box 13.

A few months before, in August: ibid.

“one half of Rumanian production”: ibid.

The rest of the planes: ibid.

Still, Earle had tapped some valuable sources: HH Box 138.

“I ought to let you know. . . .”: Winston S. Churchill,
The Second World War,
Vol. 5,
Closing the Ring,
p. 197.

“I am personally as yet unconvinced. . . .”: ibid., p. 203.

“rupturing the Anglo-American plans. . . .”: ibid., p. 197.

He was dissuaded: F. H. Hinsley,
British Intelligence in the Second World War,
vol. 3, pt. 1, pp. 415, 449.

“For this reason,” Churchill continued: Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds.,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence,
p. 389.

“About June 10, he told. . . .”: Churchill,
The Second World War,
p. 197.

Over 120 scientists and 600 foreign workers: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 389.

On November 5, Roosevelt received: MR Box 13.

“We too have received many reports. . . .”: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 392.

After Peenemünde was struck: ibid.

“Stratospheric attack on America. . . .”: MR Box 13.

The objective, he revealed, was: Hinsley, p. 347.

chapter xix: deceivers and the deceived

“A supply of money. . . .”: William M. Rigdon,
White House Sailor,
p. 61; Michael Reilly,
Reilly of the White House,
pp. 59–60.

On Saturday, November 27: William B. Breuer,
Hoodwinking Hitler,
p. 4; James MacGregor Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 406.

“a catalytic agent. . . .”: David Stafford,
Churchill and Secret Service,
p. 198.

“I think if I give [Stalin]. . . .”: William Bullitt, “How We Won the War and Lost the Peace,”
Life,
August 30, 1948, p. 94.

The Stalin whom Roosevelt hoped: C. P. Snow,
Variety of Men,
pp. 266–67.

The burly Irishman: Jim Bishop,
FDR's Last Year,
p. 2.

They had two missions: Reilly, p. 175.

“There can never be. . . .”: William L. Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,
p. 1027.

By the fall of 1943, the SD: Laslo Havas,
Hitler's Plot to Kill the Big 3,
pp. 160, 204.

With this intelligence in hand: Breuer, p. 5.

Under Skorzeny's tutelage: Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoli Sudoplatov,
Special Tasks,
p. 130.

Its members practiced assassination: Havas, p. 159.

By September 10, SS chief: ibid., pp. 160, 204.

The mission to murder: Breuer, p. 4.

“I like to be more independent. . . .”: Rigdon, p. 78.

The President chose to stay: Robert E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
p. 776.

At nine-thirty the following morning: Rigdon, p. 61.

Stalin feared, Harriman said: Havas, p. 222.

“Assassination”: Sherwood, p. 776.

The pro-Allied shah, Reza Pahlavi: Havas, p. 80; Rigdon, p. 79.

Roosevelt decided to move: Rigdon, p. 80.

The legation became a whirlwind: Havas, p. 195.

By 3 p.m., a motorcade: ibid., p. 223.

The caravan rolled out: William D. Leahy,
I Was There,
p. 203.

All but six of the hit men: Havas, p. 218.

But the six remaining: ibid., pp. 227–28.

The President was lifted: Rigdon, p. 80.

Reilly instructed the driver: Breuer, p. 6.

The car slid through the gates: Leahy, p. 203; Rigdon, p. 80.

Stalin gave up the main residence: Rigdon, pp. 80–81.

“The servants who made. . . .”: Breuer, p. 6.

Along with the comfortable: Havas, p. 223.

Stalin wore a plain: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 406.

However lacking in stature: Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time,
p. 257.

“I have tried for a long time. . . .”: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 407.

“There was no waste of word. . . .”: Sherwood, pp. 343–44.

They made an odd pair: Goodwin, p. 257.

“Roosevelt was about to say something. . . .”: Robert H. Ferrell,
The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–1945,
p. 17.

The Tehran conference ended: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 411.

Maybe the way to spike: Leahy, p. 243.

Back home, holding a press conference:
The Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Dec. 17, 1943.

“Do you realize what a bad impression . . .?”: RG 457 CBOM 76.

“The author of the statement. . . .”: ibid.

“whatever was said was concerning. . . .”: ibid.

The six surviving Skorzeny: Reilly, p. 182.

“Who will command Overlord?”: Burns,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom,
p. 410.

“I do not believe we can wait. . . .”: MR Box 165.

“We are making preparations. . . .”: Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds.,
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence,
p. 228.

“No responsible British general. . . .”: ibid., p. 222.

“like carrying a large lump of ice. . . .”: Winston S. Churchill,
Memoirs of the Second World War,
p. 619.

“especially about our being. . . .”: Loewenheim, Langley, and Jonas, p. 237.

Though Churchill had finally agreed: ibid., p. 331.

At one point, he stood: Sherwood, p. 590.

“Germany can be beaten. . . .”:
FRUS,
First Quebec Conference, p. 497.