Double agent: the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
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The never-before-told tale of the German-American who spearheaded a covert mission to infiltrate New York's Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II-the most successful counterespionage operation in US history. 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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Espionage, German
Espionage, German -- United States -- History -- 20th century
German Americans
German Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
History
Intelligence service
Military
Norden bombsight
Sebold, William G
Sebold, William G., -- 1899-1970
Secret service
Spies
Spies -- Germany -- Biography
Spies -- United States -- Biography
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- New York (State) -- New York
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
Espionage, German -- United States -- History -- 20th century
German Americans
German Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
History
Intelligence service
Military
Norden bombsight
Sebold, William G
Sebold, William G., -- 1899-1970
Secret service
Spies
Spies -- Germany -- Biography
Spies -- United States -- Biography
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- New York (State) -- New York
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
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Norden bombsight
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Double agent : the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring
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Double agent : the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring / Peter Duffy
Double agent : the first hero of World War II and how the FBI outwitted and destroyed a Nazi spy ring / Peter Duffy
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Norden bombsight
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Intelligence service
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Norden bombsight
Sebold, William G
Secret service
Spies
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