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New York: Basic Books, 1983.

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Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941–1945.
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996.

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.

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Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.

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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945.
New York: Random House, 1970.

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The Coordinator of Information and British Intelligence.
Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1978.

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Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1981.

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Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson and the Origin of the CIA.
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The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944–1946.
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articles

Allen, Louis. “Japanese Intelligence Systems.”
Journal of Contemporary History,
vol. 22 (June 1975).

Bernstein, Barton J. “The Uneasy Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Atomic Bomb: 1940–1945.”
Western Political Quarterly,
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The American Historical Review,
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Life,
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This World,
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New York History,
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Military Affairs,
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Finney, Nat S. “How FDR Planned to Use the A-Bomb.”
Look,
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Washingtonian,
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Heppenheimer, T. A. “But on the Other Hand. . . .”
American Heritage,
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Journal of Contemporary History,
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The Historian,
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Maghreb Review
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American Heritage,
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Florida History Quarterly,
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The American Historical Review,
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Military Review,
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Swanberg, W. A. “The Spies Who Came in from the Sea.”
American Heritage,
April 1970.

Sweet, Paul R. “The Windsor File.”
Historian,
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vanden Heuvel, William J. “America, FDR and the Holocaust.”
Society,
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Perspectives in American History
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Walker, David A. “OSS and Operation Torch.”
Journal of Contemporary History,
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Warner, Michael. “The Creation of the Central Intelligence Group.”
Studies in Intelligence,
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Warner, Michael, and Robert Louis Benson. “Venona and Beyond.”
Intelligence and National Security,
vol. 12, no. 3 (July 1997).

documents

Beck, Alfred M. “The Ambivalent Attaché: Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933–1941.” Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1977 (unpublished).

The Archives of Margaret L. Suckley. Wilderstein Preservation Inc.

Boston Series Reports and Related Records. Greg Bradsher, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland, 2000.

Breitman, Richard, and Timothy Naftal. “Report to the Interagency Working Group on Previously Classified OSS Records.” National Archives, College Park, Maryland, 2000.

The Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1945.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1939–1945.
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Hearings on Proposed Legislation to Curb or Control the Communist Party of the United States.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1948.

Memorandum from Colonel Richard Park Jr. to President Harry S Truman, April 13, 1945. Harry S Truman Library.

Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information. William J. Donovan to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 10, 1941. FDR Library.

Oral History Interview with Robert D. Ogg. Commander I. G. Newman (ret.), Aug. 23, 1983, Naval Security Group, unpublished. FDR Library.

Romerstein, Herbert. “Ideological Recruitment of Agents by Soviet Intelligence, in the Light of Venona.” Symposium on Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland, Oct. 29–31, 1992.

Slany, William. “Preliminary Study on U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II.” The author is the historian of the U.S. Department of State.

Statement of Elizabeth Ferrill Bentley to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Nov. 30, 1945, New York.

The Year of Crisis—1943, John Franklin Carter Diary. John Franklin Carter Papers, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, undated.

Yearbook 1982.
Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court Historical Society, 1982.

films

“Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold.” Investigative Reports, Crisman Films, Inc., New York, 1997.

“FDR.”
The American Experience
(PBS), David Grubin Productions.

“Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor.”
www.generalpatton.org/qtvr.htm
(Internet).

“Roundup.”
Dateline,
NBC News, New York, Sept. 4, 1998.

“The Spies Among Us.”
In Search of History,
The History Channel, 1998.

About the Author

JOSEPH E. PERSICO'S
books include
Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial,
which was made into a major television docudrama, and
Piercing the Reich,
on the penetration of Nazi Germany by American agents. He is also the coauthor of General Colin Powell's autobiography,
My American Journey.