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Bradley Smith reveals the sufprisingly rich exchange ofwartime intelligence between theAnglo-AmericanAllies and the Soviet Union, aswell as the procedures' and politics that made such an exchange possible/ Between the late 1930s and 1945,Allied intel- ligence organizations expanded at an enormous rate in orderto acquire the secret information theirgovernments needed towin thewar. But, as Smith demonstrates, the demand for intelli- gence faroutpaced the abilityofanyone ally to produce it. Forthat reason, Washington, London, andMoscowwere compelled to share some oftheir most sensitive secrets. Based on interviews and extensive research in Anglo-American archives and despite limited access to tenaciouslyguarded Soviet docu- ments, Smith's book persuasivelydemonstrates how reluctant and suspicious allies, driven by the harsh realities oftotal war, finally set aside their ideological differences toworkclosely with people they neithertrusted nor particularly liked. Bradley Smith's many books include Reaching JudgmentatNuremberg; TheShadowWarriors: OSSandtheOrigins oftheCIA; TheRoadto Nuremberg;Operation Sunrise, theSecret Surrender; The ULTRA-MAGICDeals; The War's LongShadow;andAdolph Hitler: His Family, 1 Childhood, andYouth. ' Sharing Secrets with Stalin Modem War Studies Theodore A. Wilson GeneralEditor RaymondA.Callahan J.GarryClifford JacobW. Kipp JayLuvaas Allan R. Millett DennisShowalter SeriesEditors Sharing Secrets with Stalin How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941-1945 E Bradley Smith San Rafasi Public Library 1100 E Street San Rafael, CA 94901 University Press ofKansas © 1996bytheUniversityPressofKansas Allrightsreserved. PublishedbytheUniversityPressofKansas(Lawrence,Kansas66049),whichwas organizedbytheKansasBoardofRegentsandisoperatedandfundedbyEmporia StateUniversity,FortHaysStateUniversity,KansasStateUniversity,Pittsburg StateUniversity,theUniversityofKansas,andWichitaStateUniversity LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Smith,BradleyF. SharingsecretswithStalin:HowtheAlliestradedintelligence, 1941-1945/ BradleyF.Smith, p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN0-7006-0800-1 — — —1.WorldWar, 1939-1945 SecretService. 2.Militaryintelligence History 20thcentury. I.Title. D810.S7S5544 1996 940.54'85—dc20 96-2395 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataisavailable. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 987654321 10 Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofthe AmericanNationalStandardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials Z39.48-1984. To Bradley and Harry Moen Contents Preface ix ListofAbbreviations XV 1 Overture 1 2 Searchingforan Intelligence Partnership 28 3 Moaning andDealing 48 4 TheTurningPointsofLate 1941 71 5 DifficultTimes 92 6 ConvergingandDividing Paths 119 7 TheFirstVictorious Summer 142 8 AWinterofMoreContentment 162 9 TheD-Day Era 185 10 ThePenultimatePhaseBegins 208 11 VictoryonOneFront 229 12 AnEndtoWar? 245 Notes 255 Bibliography 291 Index 297
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