Declassified
Subtitle: 50 top-secret documents that changed history
By: Thomas B. Allen ; foreword by Peter Earnest
Edition: Special Sale edition
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781426215988
Subjects: Espionage; History; Intelligence service; Subversive activities; Classified Defense information; Spionage; Geheimdienst; Geheimdokument; Weltgeschichte
Other titles: 50 top-secret documents that changed history; Fifty top-secret documents that changed history
Description: "Ranging in history from an assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth I to the creation of the Nazi Final Solution and to the Presidential Daily Brief from August 2001 that warned that Osama Bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S., the documents in Declassified offer an intriguing glimpse into the world of espionage and covert operations over hundreds of years."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1: SECRETS OF WAR. Spying on the Armada ; Washington finds a spy ; Benedict Arnold becomes a spy ; The lady is a spy ; A golden export to Canada ; T.R. remembers the Maine ; A telegram's special delivery ; The man who started a war ; Eavesdropping on Roosevelt and Churchill ; Planning the "final solution" ; Seeking justice for saboteurs ; Stalin approves a war ; The Pentagon Papers' legacy ; 16 troublesome words; title: 2: DOUBLE AGENTS, TURNCOATS, AND TRAITORS. Captain Henry's $50,000 letters ; Lincoln's double agent ; Whose ace of spies? ; The double agent's dog ; The spy in the tunnel ; The Pumpkin Papers; title: 3: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: SPY VS. SPY. The knight was a spy ; The million-document spy ; The Soviets' key man ; The spy drove a Jaguar ; The FBI mole; title: 4: A BODYGUARD OF LIES. George Washington's lies ; The trick that won Midway ; The star of double-cross ; "A diversionary maneuver" ; Mincemeat swallowed whole ; Broadcasting believable lies ; The game against England; title: 5: ESPIONAGE ACCIDENTS. Lee's lost order ; Papers from a corpse ; The hollow nickel; title: 6: IN DEFENSE OF THE REALM. The beer barrel letters ; A map for the Mideast ; An ambassador's doubts ; Secret notes at Yalta ; A package in the snow; title: 7: THE SECRET STATE. A secret request to Congress ; An enduring lie ; The Dreyfus affair ; The FBI and Trotsky ; Tap, tap, tap ; Bombs of a new type ; The magic messages ; The golden age of Soviet espionage ; The family jewels ; For the President's eyes only.