Hitler's Undercover War The Nazi Espionage Invasion of the U.S.A. PDF
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nPRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 31111Q11059217 ^ .i StormingHitlersRhine ^'•V •> ISBNO-315-QBbEQ-X >*1^.^S TheNazi EspionageInvasionof theU.S.A, WViVlllllild:jlmll DRrrenUneorr S^t"*o^r^m^ui°'aHR,ettled,k^mRqh,tnh.ePhilippinesand "Breuer is a first-rate historian." —TheNew York Times When Adolf Hitler began rearming Germany, he concluded that the United States, with its gigantic industrial poten- tial, would be the "decisive factor" in any futureworldwar,andinthedecadeleading up to World War II, the fuehrer and his supreme spymaster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, clandestinely invaded the United States with the most massive espionage penetration ofa major power that history had ever known. Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, Nazi Germany's Secret Service, employed all of the ruses and sinister schemes that would later be the sine qua non ofmelodramaticespionage novels and movies: spies, saboteurs, traitors, propa- gandists, couriers, go-betweens, stringers, Peeping Toms, femmes fatales, thefts of secretplans,bribes,traps,forgeries,codes, seduction of army and navy officers, and devious plots to kidnap or murder Ameri- cans holding military secrets. Because no single federal agency was charged with fighting subversive operations. Hitler's spymasterswere abletofieldinthe United States a formidable array of subversives who penetrated nearly eve\\\ ^najor de- fense contractor, military es^V^bSishment, and branch of the federal gov(r^^^l^^^)l By 1939, when President RooseveU finally m designated the FBI as the singlt ageucy to (continuedon kitkflap) C!VIC CE^JTER 3 1111 01105 9217 DATE DUE M ]m i 1 8 W AUG 18 ige^DtU 1 7 1997 SEP 6 1989 *tM^5 SEP 14 1989 12^^ EEC f'te t 7 1998 t ^^^IMKMI^H f g fggg .^1 ^ SEP ?fl 1997' OCT < f 1g^ Hitlei's Undereover War Also by William Breuer: Bloody Clash at Sadzot Captain Cool TheyJumped at Midnight Drop Zone Sicily Agony at Anzio Hitler's Fortress Cherbourg Death ofa Nazi Army Operation Torch Storming Hitler's Rhine Retaking the Philippines Devil Boats Operation Dragoon The Secret War With Germany Sea Wolf Undercover Hitler's ^^War.^ U.SA The Nazi Espionage Invasion of tlie William Breuer St. Martin's Press, NewYork — hitler's undercover war. Copyright © 1989 by William Breuer. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. No part ofthis book may be used orreproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case ofbriefquotations embodied in critical articles orreviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Design by Karin Batten Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Breuer, William B. Hitler's undercover wa—r. — 1. Espionage, German United States History 20th century. 2. World War, 1939-1945-Secret service—Germ—any. 3. World War, 1939-1945— Secret service United States. I. Title. D810.S7B67 1989 940.54'85 88-30807 ISBN 0-312-02620-X First Edition 987654321 10 Dedicated to the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (past and present) whose courage, sacrifices, and devotion have protected America from subversive forces seeking to destroy the nation and her freedoms
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