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Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History is a biography of William Wolfe Weisband who one colleague described as a "charter member" of America's top-secret Cold War codebreaking pioneers. Every day for years he worked with cryptanalysts as they struggled to tease out secrets from a mind-numbing jumble of numbers. As breakthroughs emerged, codebreakers sought his help for insights and meanings before the startling revelations were passed to US policy makers. What no one knew, however, was that with every new breakthrough, Weisband was keeping his KGB masters informed about American progress. The Army Security Agency, NSA's codebreaking predecessor, had simply swept the scandal under the rug. Government leaders said, "nothing about the case in public, and little in private either," an NSA history recorded. America's codebreaking hierarchy "simply wanted the case … to go away." Weisband was air – brushed out of history and the new NSA organization wanted it kept that way. This one insider spy experts say "did greater damage to America's national security" than later traitors like Jack Dunlap, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, and Ronald Pelton: even more than Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Weisband's story has never been told. A half a century after his death, the mystery surrounding this man remains.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Reader’s Note
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Lies
- Chapter 2: Hotels
- Chapter 3: Double Lives
- Chapter 4: A Washington Committee
- Chapter 5: Zero
- Chapter 6: Radio School
- Chapter 7: Pollock
- Chapter 8: Failure
- Chapter 9: Blerio
- Chapter 10: Brooks and Werner
- Chapter 11: Coos County
- Chapter 12: Needle and Link
- Chapter 13: Soldier
- Chapter 14: The Farm
- Chapter 15: European Theater of Operations
- Chapter 16: Rendezvous
- Chapter 17: Arlington Hall
- Chapter 18: Settling In
- Chapter 19: Disaster
- Chapter 20: Disaster Times Two
- Chapter 21: Top Secret—Cream
- Chapter 22: Charter Member
- Chapter 23: Mabel
- Chapter 24: Jimmy’s Place
- Chapter 25: Top-Secret Glint
- Chapter 26: The Big Stuff
- Chapter 27: The Jewels in the Amber
- Chapter 28: Strange Odyssey
- Chapter 29: Vladimir Arrives
- Chapter 30: Catastrophe
- Chapter 31: Reckoning
- Chapter 32: Face-Off
- Chapter 33: Flight
- Chapter 34: Aftermath
- Chapter 35: Endgame
- Prologue
- Bibliography
- About the Author
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