Espionage's Most Wanted

The Top 10 Book of Malicious Moles, Blown Covers, and Intelligence Oddities

Thomas E Mahl

• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781574884890
• eBook ISBN: 9781612340388
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Intelligence & Espionage
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In Espionage's Most Wanted™, readers will learn that America’s first spymasters included Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. Otto von Bismarck’s chief spy, Wilhelm Stieber, posed as an itinerant peddler and sold religious artifacts and pornography to enemy troops as a cover for collecting intelligence. During the cultural competition of the Cold War, the CIA helped popularize abstract expressionism by spending millions to promote the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock. The East Germans once traded two captured West German agents for one dead East German agent. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt cleverly disrupted an intimate dinner meeting between Mexican Communists and a Soviet delegation by distributing party invitations to the general public. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the CIA employed psychics to “remotely view” places of interest in the Soviet Union. Espionage's Most Wanted™, chronicles 500 of the most daring spies, ingenious plots, bungled operations, and surprising facts about the history of espionage and intelligence from around the world. Its fifty lists include the top-ten intelligence agencies, master spies, traitors, spy gadgets, code-breaking coups, covert operations blunders, and colorful dirty tricks. History buffs and espionage enthusiasts will enjoy this irreverent but illuminating look at the world of spies and intelligence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Photographs
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• By Their Names You Will Not Know Them: Code Names
• By Their Names You Are Not Supposed to Know Them: The Jargon of Espionage
• Ten Tools of the Trade: The Gadgets and Toys of Espionage
• The Elite: The Top Ten Intelligence Agencies
• From Russia with Secret Police: Russian Intelligence Agencies in the Twentieth Century
• American Revolution, American Spies: American Spies of the American Revolution
• American Revolution, English Spies: English Spies in the American Revolution
• Major Martin and Friends—Those Who Never Were: Phony People and Groups Created by Intelligence Agencies
• A Spy’s Walk through London: A Tour of London for the Espionage A.cionado
• A Spy’s Washington, D.C.: A Tour of Georgetown and Vicinity for the Espionage A.cionado
• Still Classified After All These Years: Selected Secrets Withheld from the Public
• Companies of the Company: Companies Run as Fronts by the CIA
• James and the Giant Peach to Goldfinger: The Spy as Writer
• Noms De Plume and d’Espionage: Spies and the Pen Names They Wrote Under
• The Monster Rally, Dirty Tricks, and Black Propaganda: The Dirty Tricks and Black Propaganda that Make Covert Operations Fun
• Sobriquets: The Nicknames of Espionage
• Swallows and Honeytraps: Women Agents Used against Men
• Ravens or Swans, the Male Swallows: Male Agents Used against Women
• Cover Jobs: The Jobs Spies Appear to Do in Their Public Lives
• The Rich and Famous Worked Here, Too: Prominent People Who Worked in Intelligence
• Favorite Watering Holes—A Tour of Western Europe and the United States: Places Where Spies Have a Drink and Relax
• Bosses (Spymasters): The Memorable Ones Who Ran the Spies
• The Price Is Right: Payoffs and Bribes
• Freedom of the Press for All Those Who Own a Press: Newspapers Owned or Under the In.uence of Intelligence Agencies
• Patron of Letters: Books Planted by Intelligence Agencies
• "The Company’’ and ‘‘The Friends’’ Take to the Air: Radio Stations Run or Controlled by Intelligence Agencies
• From ‘‘A Better World,’’ ‘‘A World Full of Bliss’’ to ‘‘A Wet Job’’ and ‘‘The Measles’’: Assassinations
• They Shoot Spies, Don’t They?: The East and West Swap Spies
• Great Quips from the Great Game: Great Quotations from the Spy Business
• Creativity at the Bureau: The FBI Uses Its Creative Writing Skills to Disrupt the Left and Right
• The Magnificent Five, Plus Five: Soviet Agents Who Penetrated the British Government
• Loyalty, Loyalty, Wherefore Art Thou Loyalty?: Enemy Of.cials and Agents Who Helped Britain and the United States
• Ten for the Intelligence Cognoscenti: Ten Little Known Items of Espionage
• Ten for Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project: Soviet Spies Steal the Secrets of the Atom Bomb
• The Company Goes to the Movies: Movies about Espionage
• The Company as Culture Vulture: The CIA Fights the Soviets in Music, Painting, and Literature
• Encounter et al., the CIA’s Stable of Highbrow Culture Magazines
• Ten Selected Books Published by the CIA Front Congress for Cultural Freedom
• It Always Sounds Better in French—Especially If You Don’t Know French
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author