Take the story of >Joan Pujol Garcia, a World War II double agent so convincing that he got an Iron Cross.

And honestly, that's when the espionage gets the most interesting. Janeczko is at his best when he's writing the specific stories of individuals and small groups. It's a brief overview of some very cool spy stories, almost entirely American. This is by no means a complete history of espionage, but it doesn't try to be. Colorful personalities, daring missions, the feats of the loyal, and the damage of traitors are interspersed with a look at the technological advances that continue to change the rules of gathering intelligence. Janeczko probes such stories as that of Elizabeth Van Lew, an aristocrat whose hatred of slavery drove her to be one of the most successful spies in the Civil War the 'Choctaw code talkers,' Native Americans who were instrumental in sending secret messages during World War I the staggering engineering behind a Cold War tunnel into East Berlin to tap Soviet phones (only to be compromised by a Soviet mole) and many more famous and less-known examples. history.Įver since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. Janeczko uncovers two centuries’ worth of true spy stories in U.S.

From clothesline codes to surveillance satellites and cyber espionage, Paul B.

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