Spying through a glass darkly
Subtitle: American espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945-1946
By: David Alvarez and Eduard Mark
Contributors: Mark, Eduard Maximilian
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780700621927; 9780700621972
Subjects: United States; American Espionage; Intelligence service; United States. War Department. Strategic Services Unit; Foreign relations; History
Description: "This book chronicles the struggles of American intelligence agencies to come to grips with Europe's new postwar realities, including the growing dominance of the Soviet Union, its recent ally in the war against Hitler's Germany. Focusing on the Strategic Services Unit, which rose from the ashes of the OSS and took on missions that would eventually be embraced by the CIA, Alvarez illuminates a long-neglected and poorly understood chapter in what became the Cold War"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the precipice of peace; title: A mystery in an enigma; title: Signs and portents: Germany; title: Spies on the Danube: Austria; title: A distant arena: Eastern Europe; title: The nearer shore: France and Italy; title: Conclusion.